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VOCABULARY
I pass on to the question of how they are used. Mr.
Leeb-Lundberg, in his treatise < On Word-Formation in Kipling»,
has adopted a division into cases with proper meaning and
cases of transferred meaning. In the latter category, then,
there occurs an image, a metaphor. As this division aptly
sets off the peculiarities of Swinburne, I have adopted
it here.
A. I. a. 1. Composition of a past participle and its
agent. Proper meaning.
As to their number, these formations amount to about
two-thirds of all the cases; some doubtful cases also occur.
The comparatively large number of new formations shown
in the epic poems is rather striking.
I have already, and at some length, given my reasons
for ascribing a large number of the past part, compounds
to foreign influence. There is, however, one more motive
that is clearly discernible in some subdivisions, and
especially in the present one. About a third part of all the
cases here included show a correspondence of sounds
between the two parts of the compound which sometimes
becomes pure alliteration.
I, 185, As some bec-bailded cell . . .
98, As these men sleep have slept
The old heroes in time fled,
No dream-divided sleep.
238, And salt fierce tides of storm-swoln Bosphorus.
II, 10, Their seythe-swept harvest-field . . .
81, Women with labour-loosened knees . . .
87, Lo, thy blood-blackened altars
III, 295, Along the foam-flowered strand
Breeze-brightened . . .
321, No healing hymn of peace-prevented strife . . .
338, From the utmost rock-reared height . . .
348, From fairy-footed fields of wild old flowers . . .
IV, 370, Through a pass rock-rimmed and narrow . . .
379, These ears death-deafened.
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