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Sonnet 19

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1609

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words117
Total unique words90
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables70
Total phonemes378
Total unique phonemes42
Total stressed phonemes204
Total slack phonemes174