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22 SYNTAX
(i) Cases characteristic by reason of their
frequency only.
§ 1. The Inner Structure of a Clause.
(a) Word-order.
Inverted word-order has always been a favourite trick
of the poets. Cases of such an inversion are not rare in
Swinburne’s poetry:
11, 250, And what sad words said she
For mine own grief I knew not .. .
IV, 16, . . . she thought
What words and cries of battle had they flung . . .
52, Till in the lovely fight of love and sleep
At length had sleep the mastery . . .
VI, 82, . . .: this is it
Which sets you past the reach of Time’s attempt . . .
134, Yet may not it say, though it seek thee . . .
A rather peculiar form of archaisation is the
following verse of the Masque of Queen Bersabe:
I, 226, Come hither; it am I.
Finally, the rhetorical aim of this device is aptly
illustrated by the following stanza of England: An Ode:
VI, 187, Things of night at her glance took flight; the strengths
of darkness recoiled and sank:
Sank the fires of the murderous pyres whereon wild
agony writhed and shrank:
Rose the light of the reign of right from gulfs of years
that the darkness drank.
Cases of other divergencies of a similar type also
abound, viz. cases where the usual prose position of
different parts of a clause has been changed for some reason
or other, e. g.:
IV, 36, The last [time] that sorrow far from them should sit,
This last was with them, and they knew not it . . .
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