case choice by rhyme

[Joel S. Berson]

Please tell me why this "she" should be read as the object of
"belied" rather than the subject".

At 9/21/2005 03:50 PM, you wrote:
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>         It's not new.  Compare Shakespeare's Sonnet CXXX:
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>"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
>As any she belied with false compare."
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>         Shakespeare didn't need the rhyme, but he did need a
>monosyllabic reference for his dark lady.
>
>John Baker
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>Subject: case choice by rhyme
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>another kind of example, which came by on my iTunes  (sung by Blossom
>Dearie) a little while ago...
>
>from "You for Me", music by Harold Arlen, Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
>(1959):
>
>Take a look and see
>You've hooked the she
>Who'll agree
>Quite cheerfully...
>
>here, the personal pronoun (in the nominative, in this case) is used
>like an ordinary head noun.
>
>i'm sure there are other examples out there of
>    a/the she/her/he/him
>but search engines really aren't good at picking the good stuff out.
>
>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu), annoyed to discover that the lyrics
>don't seem to be available on the web, presumably because of copyright
>fanatacism (on the Harold Arlen site, i was given the option of
>licensing the song)