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Take, O take those lips away

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1623

Total stanzas1
Total lines6
Total words41
Total unique words30
Total syllables48
Total stressed syllables28
Total slack syllables20
Total phonemes130
Total unique phonemes30
Total stressed phonemes90
Total slack phonemes40