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Shropshire Lad XIX. To An Athlete Dying Young

A. E. Housman

Literary period: Victorian
Date published: 1896

Total stanzas7
Total lines28
Total words179
Total unique words118
Total syllables216
Total stressed syllables112
Total slack syllables104
Total phonemes579
Total unique phonemes44
Total stressed phonemes338
Total slack phonemes241