Statistics for Poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII

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Answer	% Correct
Shall I {compare} thee to a summer's day?	99%
Thou art more lovely and more {temperate}:	70%
So long as men can breathe or {eyes} can see,	59%
{Rough} winds do shake the darling buds of May,	52%
But thy eternal {summer} shall not fade	47%
So long lives {this}, and this gives life to thee.	45%
And summer's {lease} hath all too short a date:	44%
Sometime too hot the eye of {heaven} shines,	42%
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his {shade},	40%
By chance, or {nature}'s changing course, untrimm'd;	39%
And every fair from fair sometime {declines},	38%
And often is his {gold} complexion dimm'd;	29%
When in eternal lines to time thou {grow}'st;	28%
Nor lose {possession} of that fair thou ow'st;	20%