Assertion: simile | /r/CapableOf | become in very act of forming
Facets:
value: as from a sort of instinct
type: CAUSE
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Metaphors are the strongest and surest mode of doing this; and so keen was the Poet's quest of this, that his similes, in the very act of forming, often become half-metaphors, as from a sort of instinct.