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Under the greenwood tree

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1623

Total stanzas2
Total lines14
Total words76
Total unique words44
Total syllables96
Total stressed syllables44
Total slack syllables52
Total phonemes244
Total unique phonemes34
Total stressed phonemes127
Total slack phonemes117