Thus in “Spring” we find, e.g., “prelusive drops,” “the amusive arch” (the rainbow), “the torpid sap detruded to the root,” etc., as well as numerous passages such as
Joined to these
Innumerous songsters in the freshening shade
Of new-sprung leaves, their modulations mix
Mellifluous.
(“Spring,” 607 foll.)
In “Summer” the epithet gelid appears with almost wearisome iteration, with other examples like flexile wave, the fond sequacious bird, etc., while the cloud that presages a storm is called “the small prognostic” and trees are “the noble sons of potent heat and floods.” Continuous passages betray similar characteristics:
From thee the sapphire, solid ether, takes
Its hue cerulean and of evening tinct.
(“Summer,” 149 foll.)