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The Princess: The splendour falls on castle walls

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson

Literary period: Victorian
Date published: 1850

Total stanzas3
Total lines18
Total words128
Total unique words71
Total syllables174
Total stressed syllables81
Total slack syllables93
Total phonemes449
Total unique phonemes41
Total stressed phonemes247
Total slack phonemes202