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Sonnet 2

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1609

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words115
Total unique words86
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables71
Total slack syllables69
Total phonemes382
Total unique phonemes42
Total stressed phonemes211
Total slack phonemes171