Have lighted

Here's another bit of distinctive phrasing:

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

'Have lighted' is unusual phrasing. In contemporary English, we'd be more likely to say 'have lit'.

And as with 'creeps in', we get a particular da DUM heartbeat-type rhythm.

With 'creeps in', this sounds like 'creeps IN'.

With 'have lighted' this sounds like 'have LIGHTed'—with '-ed' sound marking the first beat of the next da DUM: 'have LIGHT-ed FOOLS'.

Arguably that's one reason why Shakespeare chose 'lighted' over 'lit'—to get this rhythm. (Plus 'light' it is a central image throughout the play and 'lit' is just not as evocative a word.)

Again, we'll come back to this rhythm business later in this lesson.

We can come up with all sorts of odd-sounding 'have verbed' phrases:

Drive-thru: have greased, have argumented, have fluoresced, have airconned, have chickened, have glassed

Things fall apart: have toastered, have sunlighted, have pressured, have timbered, have ragged, have debted, have rivered, have bleeded, have tided, have warred, have fighted

Write some interesting sounding 'have verbed' phrases. You might like to look back at your list word-association list to find odd combinations.

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