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(1910) [MARC] Author: Frank Heller
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VOCABULARY

!, 214, In fields where wait, well-girt, well-wreothen, all
The heavy-handed seasons all year through.

IV, 262, On the strait reefs of twice-washed Salamis
292, . . . Admetus twice-espoused.

B. Composition with non-genuine past participles.

This chapter will show those formations of
Swinburne’s that are both most common and most daring of
all. The number of cases is even greater than in the last
group. Nearly two hundred cases of peculiar use have
been noted by me. The distribution of these among the
different volumes is, on the whole, proportional to that of
genuine participles, with the exception of «Poems and
Ballads I , which here gives a much higher figure, about 26
cases. The second and third series of < Poems and
Ballads > furnish between 20 and 25; «Songs of the
Springtides » about ten; the epic poems nearly 30; and the
Hellenic dramas something like 20. Vol. II has the supremacy
here, too, with a total of forty examples. Finally, the later
works give between 20 and 30.

The motive of these formations is evidently the
ever-present desire for concreteness and stronger suggestion.
Clearly a phrase like the following:

II, 6, Outroar the lion-throated seas,

Outchide the north-wind if it chid,
And hush the torrent-tongued ravines,

with two formations of this type, is intended to give the
impression of these epithets if dissolved in one moment
and with greater vividness. In addition to this motive we
have to take into account the oratorical character of these
formations, which is perhaps even more apparent than that
of the genuine participle compounds, and is also emphasized
by the figures given above as regards their distribution
among Swinburne’s works.

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