Table 1.

Number of Words per Category within Each Sonnet and within all Three Sonnets

Sonnet	Closed-class	Adj./ Adv.	N.	V.	Total
	count [ % ]	count [ % ]	count [ % ]	count [ % ]
27	49 [44.14]	20 [18.02]	28 [25.23]	14 [12.61]	111
60	48 [44.44]	12 [11.11]	30 [27.78]	18 [16.67]	108
66	33 [36.26]	20 [21.98]	21 [23.08]	17 [18.68]	91
Total	130 [41.94]	52 [16.77]	79 [25.48]	49 [15.81]	310

Note. Closed-class refers to the category of function words; Adj./ Adv. refers to adjective or adverb; N. refers to noun; V. refers to verb; % is the percentage of each word category within each sonnet or within all three sonnets.