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Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1609

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words114
Total unique words84
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables71
Total slack syllables69
Total phonemes371
Total unique phonemes41
Total stressed phonemes206
Total slack phonemes165