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SYNTAX
IV, 170, Albeit, for all that pride would prove,
My heart be wrung to lose thy love . . .
1, 71, Though these that were Gods are dead and thou being
dead art a God . . .
[Other cases: I, 194, IV, 159, 161, etc.].
Finally, the subjunctive is used in indirect interrogative
clauses:
1, 168. We shall see whether hell be not heaven,
Find out whether tares be not grain . . .
187, If with its colour it have breath,
If life taste sweet to it, if death
Pain its soft petals, no man knows.
(c). Prepositions.
Though Swinburne’s language offers many a curious
case in its use of prepositions, there is chiefly the case of
of to be mentioned here. Of, for, by is no uncommon thing
in higher style, but in the works of Swinburne it is the
rule. By gradually regains part of its lost position in
the later collections, but never completely. In the earlier
works — «Atalanta>, « Poems and Ballads I — 111», «Songs
before Sunrise>, <Songs of Two Nations*, «Songs of the
Springtides», and «Erechtheus» — I have counted a total
of between 20 and 30 examples of the use of by.
«Tris-tram of Lyonesse> shows a marked increase — 12 to 15
cases in 150 pages; and in the later collections of poems
the frequency of by becomes even greater.
Instances of of occur: I, 160, II, 85, VI, 171 etc.
Instances of by occur: II, 251, III, 50, V, 90, etc.
After this survey of Swinburne’s use of the syntax
of the higher style, I now proceed to a special chapter
on the more individual
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