The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson
page 32 of 620 (05%)
page 32 of 620 (05%)
|
Hyperbaton as in
The _dew-impearled_ winds of dawn. --'Ode to Memory'. Metonymy as in The _bright death_ quiver'd at the victim's throat. --'Dream of Fair Women'. or in For some three _careless moans_ The summer pilot of an empty heart. --'Gardener's Daughter'. No poet since Milton has employed what is known as Onomatopoeia with so much effect. Not to go farther than the poems of 1842, we have in the 'Morte d'Arthur':-- So all day long the noise of battle _rolled Among the mountains by the winter sea_; or |
|