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FALSE PAST PARTICIPLES
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Usually the substantival part of such a compound will
also be found to be abstract of meaning, if not of class:
a generalization like time, love, song, etc, or an abstraction
of some phenomenon of the outer world, as winter, night,
wind, etc. I have already pointed out the role of these
words in Swinburne’s vocabulary and among his images
and epithets (page 58).
As regards the verbal part of the compound,
Swinburne’s language shows the same mannerisms here as, for
instance, in the department of adjective compounds. A
marked fondness for one or two verbs in clearly
discernible. Most common of all, without doubt, is strike, which
gives about a dozen combinations of this kind. Ride also
seems to have been a favourite of the poet’s.
As regards the metaphor that is created by the
combination of these two parts, classical influence is certainly
to be noticed in a number of cases. This I shall set forth
later (page 117).
I now proceed to a selection of cases.
II, 15, A comet-lighted lamp, sublime and sole,
Dawn of the dayless heaven where suns despair . . .
85, It creaks and rocks to left and right
Consumed of rottenness and rust,
Worm-eaten of the worms of night,
Dead as their spirits who put trust,
Round its base muttering as they sit,
In the time-cankered name of it.
| Before a Crucifix.,
136, Many names and flames
Pass and flash and fall,
Night-begotten names ... •
177, What should I do to curse or bless at all
For winter-woven and summer-coloured days.
Ill, 328, Flags, flickering like a wind-bewildered leaf . . .
33u, And many a self-lit, flower-illumined tree . . .
337, . . . with heart-enkindled eyes . . .
347, Kept watch about his dawn-enkindled dreams.
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