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The Princess: Now sleeps the crimson petal

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson

Literary period: Victorian
Date published: 1847

Total stanzas5
Total lines14
Total words114
Total unique words69
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables70
Total slack syllables70
Total phonemes365
Total unique phonemes40
Total stressed phonemes204
Total slack phonemes161