The Princess: A Medley
Tennyson's medley and the songs set between its cantos: "Tears, idle tears", "Now sleeps the crimson petal", "The splendour falls on castle walls".
Measured across the book
Across its 3,350 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.19 times what shuffling the words would give (0.39 observed against 0.33 expected). 18% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Prologueiambic pentameter · 246 linesPoem Iiambic pentameter · 263 linesPoem IIiambic pentameter · 480 linesPoem IIIiambic pentameter · 367 linesPoem IViambic pentameter · 584 linesPoem Viambic pentameter · 558 linesPoem VIiambic pentameter · 383 linesPoem VIIiambic pentameter · 351 linesConclusioniambic pentameter · 118 lines
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Public domain. Text from The Princess, Project Gutenberg ebook #791. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.