The Princess: Tears, idle tears
Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
Literary period: Victorian
Date published: 1847
| Total stanzas | 4 |
| Total lines | 20 |
| Total words | 166 |
| Total unique words | 95 |
| Total syllables | 200 |
| Total stressed syllables | 101 |
| Total slack syllables | 99 |
| Total phonemes | 522 |
| Total unique phonemes | 42 |
| Total stressed phonemes | 300 |
| Total slack phonemes | 222 |