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Sweet music, sweeter far

The Shepherd’s Song: A carol or hymn for Christmas

Edmund Bolton

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1600

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Total phonemes858
Total unique phonemes
Total stressed phonemes483
Total slack phonemes375