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Idea: To the Reader of these Sonnets

Michael Drayton

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1605

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words103
Total unique words84
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables70
Total phonemes359
Total unique phonemes40
Total stressed phonemes198
Total slack phonemes161