Like Shaun, after 5 other works, I finally have that feeling of admiration for the combination of the poetic qualities of this piece and its voice as a sonnet.
From my point of view, hair’s and veins’ are perfectly correct as used. In English, hair is treated as singular, no matter how many “hairs” there are, and vein is singular only if there is just one. Since the poem is quite likely not saying that there is one particular vein sticking out, but an array of them, this genitive is exact.
Last edited by Lois Elaine Heckman; 07-17-2013 at 12:18 PM.
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