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FALSE PAST PARTICIPLES
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V, 206, Dire indeed the birth of Leda’s womb that had God’s
self to sire
Bloomed, a flower of love that stung the soul with fangs
that gnaw like fire:
But the twin-born human-fathered sister-flower bore fruit
more dire.
The classical allusion that is clearly seen in the last
instance may certainly underlie still more formations.
B. II. Substantives combined with a non-genuine past
participle.
While the last group was characterized by number
and simplicity, this one reaches a far smaller figure, but
also contains the most daring and peculiar innovations in
Swinburne’s language.
The distribution of cases is in the main the same as
before, but a displacement in favour of the second and
third series of < Poems and Bal!ads» is noticeable. The
Hellenic dramas also reach a higher total than usual.
The motive of these formations is evidently the same
as the principal one in those treated above. The metrical
motives do not seem to play any role of importance here:
probably the aim at an image has been stronger than the
aim at word-music, just as was the case in composition
of a genuine past participle with its agent in a transferred
sense. Still there are cases like
II, 167, Yea, in thy myriad-mooded woe,
Yea, Mother, hast thou not said so?
III, 301, Yea, she can hear and see beyond all things
That lighten from before Time’s thunderous wings
Through the awful circle of wheel-winged periods
The tempest of the twilight of all Gods.
IV, 379, Beyond the wild ways of the unwandered world
And loud wastes of the thunder-throated sea . . .
As regards the relation of the two parts of the
compound to one another, there are two different types of
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