How do I love you? I don't even know
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Note: this is a parody of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")

Text Authorship:

• by Karl Jay Shapiro (1913 - 2000), "How do I love you?", copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "How do I love you?", op. 28 no. 5 (1970) [tenor or soprano and piano (with optional strings)], from The bourgeois poet, no. 5. [
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• by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "How do I love you? (Sonnetina #3)", op. 28a (1970-2) [SATB chorus with piano and string quartet], note: the music parodies Ravel's string quartet [
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