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Description of Spring, wherein each thing renews, save only the lover

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1557

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words116
Total unique words83
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables70
Total phonemes382
Total unique phonemes40
Total stressed phonemes226
Total slack phonemes156