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The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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_;

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