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SYNTAX
First, we find them in positions where they have now
passed out of use, as antecedents of relative clauses:
11, 270, Praising thy supreme son,
Son of thy sorrow, O mother, O maid and mother,
Our queen who serve none other . . .
272, . . . salute with thine eternal eyes
Their lowest head that lies.
In the second place, on the other hand, it is eminently
characteristic of Swinburne’s language that possessives are
exchanged for of the oblique forms of personal
pronouns, or its for thereof. The poetry of Swinburne teems
with instances of this.
I, IS, . . . the faces of them shine . . .
162, Through thy garments the grace of thee glows . . .
II, 91, In the labours and lives of us here . . .
VI, 20, When day is the vassal of night, and the strengths of
the hosts of her mightier than we.
52, All her life waxed large with the light of it .. .
Spirit and sense were exalted in sight of it .. .
I, 5, . . . Were painted all the secret ways of love
And covered things thereof . . .
17, Each pore doth yearn and the dried blood thereof
Gasps . . .
IV, 36, ... and bound
The gates thereof with dreams as iron round.
With this compare Franz, § 192.
Finally, possessives may be omitted in the same way
as is sometimes done with personal pronouns.
I, 37, Yea, hope at highest and ail her fruit,
And time at fullest and all his dower . . .
II, 257, . . . before the sun break prison.
We have to note, in the case of demonstratives, their
use at times instead of the definite article: the motive in
these cases is always the imitation of Middle-English
romances and epics.
I, 244, Then said this lady with her maiden mouth . . .
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