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FALSE PAST PARTICIPLES
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Instances are not wanting where an already existing
combination of this kind, which of course may have lost
its impression of a concentrated image, is dissolved in order
to produce the same effect as is reached by composition
in other cases.
I, 232, My maidens, girdled loose and braced
With gold from bosom to white waist . . .
|Cf. Ill, 28, greenest-girdled and IV, 29 7, golden-girdled.}
II, 149, Birds shall wake with thee voiced and feathered fairer,
To see in summer what 1 see in spring.
[Cf. IV, 31, fuller-feathered, 1, 247, deep-feathered.]
With these examples we may compare the following
lines of «Tristram of Lyonesse».
IV, 47, ... reeled the strong steeds heavily, haggard-eyed,
And heartened high with passion of their pride.
A non-genuine past part., we know, originates in the
combination of an attribute of some kind and a noun; the
latter is then provided with the ending -cci. Evidently such
a ’compound’ is of a very loose nature. As adjectives are
the most common of all attributes, the greatest part, or
two-thirds, of these formations naturally shows a
combination of an adjective and a non-genuine past participle.
B. 1. With these 1 begin.
The often-mentioned motive of word-music is to be
found once more here, while the next-following groups do
not show it, or at least, do not prove its existence. As
has been the case before, an analogy of sounds may
prevail all through a line; and alliteration, or correspondence
of sounds, between the two parts of the compound is
exceedingly common. Must it not be supposed that an aim
at the former kind of melody has played a role in the
creation of the following lines, and words?
I, 214, Her dumb and mournful-mouthed minister . . .
214, And stooping sharp to the slant-sided share . „ .
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