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How was the è in past-tense verbs pronounced?
How would Shakespeare have pronounced damnèd for example?
How about the end of Nurse's Song by Blake:
The little ones leapèd, and shoutèd, and laugh'd
And all the hills echoèd
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pronouncing -ó in poetry [duplicate]
Do you guys know how '-ó' is pronounced?
Context: The Windhover, Hopkins.
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
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Why are diacritics used in words that apparently don't need them? Is it some sort of poetic license? [duplicate]
In his poem Spring and Fall, Gerard Manley Hopkins uses diacritics where one would normally not see them. Does anyone know why? Here is the poem:
Márgarét, áre you gríeving
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What does the grave accent mark on words mean?
What exactly does the grave accent mean in English?
An example from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30:
The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan
