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Sonnet 116

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1609

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words110
Total unique words80
Total syllables142
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables72
Total phonemes372
Total unique phonemes40
Total stressed phonemes211
Total slack phonemes161