English Poetic Phonemics

A SSHRC-supported research website: in development
Marc R. Plamondon, principal investigator

Search                     Poets                     Example poems                     Results                     About

Sonnet 118

William Shakespeare

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1609

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words112
Total unique words86
Total syllables144
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables74
Total phonemes374
Total unique phonemes44
Total stressed phonemes214
Total slack phonemes160