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The Princess: Come down, O maid

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson

Literary period: Victorian
Date published: 1847

Total stanzas1
Total lines31
Total words248
Total unique words139
Total syllables311
Total stressed syllables155
Total slack syllables156
Total phonemes829
Total unique phonemes46
Total stressed phonemes473
Total slack phonemes356