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The Shepherd’s Daffodil

Michael Drayton

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1600

Total stanzas12
Total lines48
Total words272
Total unique words157
Total syllables338
Total stressed syllables168
Total slack syllables170
Total phonemes877
Total unique phonemes45
Total stressed phonemes507
Total slack phonemes370