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Sonnet 1

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1609

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words107
Total unique words81
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables70
Total phonemes383
Total unique phonemes41
Total stressed phonemes214
Total slack phonemes169