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14
ACCIDENCE
V, 8S, ... as wild weeds cast on an heap . . .
Cf. numerals, an hundred.
(iii) Gender. From the literatures of classical
antiquity, and especially that of the Renaissance, Swinburne
adopted an extended use of personification. The number
of instances is very large; and this habit may certainly be
set down as an essential feature of Swinburne’s.
The use of personifications has of course involved
the change of the neuter gender to masculine or feminine.
In most cases of this kind the feminine gender is used in
opposition to the rules of Shakespeare. Of the nine words
that take both genders in Shakespeare, sea and soul have
become exclusively feminine in Swinburne, while love is
masculine.
The following instances show cases of both
masculine and feminine.
1, 37, Yea, hope at highest and all her fruit
And time at fullest and all his dower . . .
293, Dawn drives them before her like legions . . .
II, 231, . . . sees fear . . .
Crawl forth and smite his father dead . . .
271, When heaven reluctant rains long-suffering fire,
When his wind shakes them and his waters whelm ...
III, 290, Love . . . Yea, change and death are his servants . . .
IV, 23, Night with all her stars . . .
126, ... the sea
When on her bare bright bosom as a bride
She takes the young sun . . .
V, 89, When the soul of the seer in her vision . . .
VI, 125, Faith, discrowned of her praise . . .
(iv) Flexion of Substantives.
I have noted some interesting revivals made by
Swinburne. Almost all of them, however, occur in one highly
archaized poem of « Poems and Ballads I», The Masque of
Queen Bersabe. We there find genitive-forms like
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