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Most of the short poems in the publication, Shakespeare's Sonnets were of the same length, 14 lines, and contained a minimum of 140 syllables. However, Sonnet 126 contains only 12 lines and around 120 syllables; Sonnet 145 contains a full 14 lines but only some 112 syllables.

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