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SENTENCE-STRUCTURE
31
In the hollow before it the thunder is taken and snared
as a prey;
In its sides is the north-wind bound; and its salt is of
all men’s tears;
With light of ruin, and sound of changes and pulse of
years;
With travail of day after day and with trouble of hour
after hour;
And bitter as blood is the spray, and the crests are as
fangs that devour:
And its vapour and storm of its steam as the sighing of
spirits to be;
And its noise as the noise in a dream; and its depth as
the roots of the sea;
And the height of its heads as the height of the utmost
stars of the air
And the ends of the earth at the might thereof tremble
and time is made bare.
Will ye bridle the deep sea with reins, will ye chasten
the high sea with rods? . . .
A Song in Time of Revolution also affords an example
of parallelism that is consciously Biblical, especially in the
marked pause in the middle of each verse.
I, 142, Their moan is in every place, the cry of them filleth the
land:
There is shame in the sight of their face, there is fear
in the thews of their hand.
For the sound of the shouting of men they are grievously
stricken at heart:
They are smitten asunder with pain, their bones are
smitten apart.
Of course other rhetorical subtleties in the coupling
of clauses will abound; emphatical questions’ etc.
V, 100, (the sea) What is fire that its flames should consume
her?
More fierce than all fires are her waves.
What is earth that it gulfs should entomb her?
More deep are her own than their graves.
Leaving this department for that of grammar, we find
there, too, some irregularities. One of these is decidedly
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