Word: swanged
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze of a mysterious beggar. Poet de la Mare loves not only poetic language and tricks of speech, but poetic words as well: whist, clomb, darnelled. He writes swang instead of swung because he likes the sound...
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