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Sonnet 109

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1609

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words117
Total unique words76
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables70
Total phonemes364
Total unique phonemes39
Total stressed phonemes207
Total slack phonemes157