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VOCABULARY
composition, which may be illustrated by the following two
examples.
I, 164, And milk-budded myrtles with Venus
And vine-grapes with Bacchus he trod.
II, 35, And with love-locks vine-cliapleted and with rose-crowned
heads,
And robes of shame . . .
Three or four cases of this kind of combination either
belong to a possessive genitive type of composition, or,
which is more probable, are to be regarded as derivations.
I shall give them together.
III, 302, He first set foot upon the spring-flowered ways
That all feet pass and praise . . .
IV, 136, With words like swords and thunder-clouded creeds
And faiths more dire than sin’s most direful deeds.
399, . . . That joy out of woe
May arise as the spring out of tempest and snow
With the flower-feasted month in her hands rose-red
Borne soft as a babe from the bearing-bed.
To these we may add the myriad-mooded woe of II,
167, above, though somewhat different in structure.
Of the two real types of composition the first one
which denotes comparison between the two parts of the
compound is by far the more common one: more than
three fourths of all my cases belong to it. All the
remaining cases belong to the second type, the source of which
is a qualitative genitive.
There are no peculiarities to be found in an
investigation of the first constituent part of cases belonging to
the first group. Swinburne’s love of concrete images is
proved here, however, as words denoting exterior objects
— milk, iron, rose, storm — vastly predominate.
As regards the second constituent, however, certain
words are always given preference. Colour and shape
here take the first place: colour, for instance, forms more
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