I never thought of writing applicative poems-the heavens forfend!
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
These "analyses" were by no means a source of particular pleasure to Caroline; she thought she could have learned French just as well without them, and grudged excessively the time spent in pondering over "propositions, principales, et incidents;" in deciding the "incidente determinative," and the "incidente applicative;" in examining whether the proposition was "pleine," "elliptique," or "implicite."
"Shirley"
Charlotte Brontë