[
  {
    "title": "Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame",
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "lines": [
      "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame",
      "Is lust in action: and till action, lust",
      "Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame,",
      "Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;",
      "Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight;",
      "Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,",
      "Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait,",
      "On purpose laid to make the taker mad:",
      "Mad in pursuit and in possession so;",
      "Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme;",
      "A bliss in proof,-- and prov'd, a very woe;",
      "Before, a joy propos'd; behind a dream.",
      "  All this the world well knows; yet none knows well",
      "  To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]