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SEMATOLOCiY.
In the work of every poet there must be found the
tendency to give to the words he uses, and to their
combinations, a greater fund of living energy; an attempt to
put new wine into the old wine-skins. This tendency falls
under all the different parts of grammatical treatment. When
archaic flexions or new flexions are made use of, this will
be treated in the chapter on Accidence; when words, and
clauses, and sentences are put together in peculiar ways,
this will chiefly be a matter for syntactical investigation;
and finally, when new words are created, or old revived,
the chapter on Word-formation and Choice of Words will
be the natural place of a survey of these things. But in
addition to all these there exists a number of peculiarities that
cannot be placed under any of these headings, as they are
neither pure Accidence, nor Syntax, nor Vocabulary. These
are the changes of meaning and construction used to
produce new and stronger effects, and the little oratorical and
poetical devices adopted or invented for the same purposes
that do not touch the departments of grammar already
mentioned. All these together need the special heading
of Sematology.
§ 1. Substantives.
There are three ways of this kind used by Swinburne
to strengthen the meaning of a substantive, of which two
are exceedingly common with him.
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