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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
Over Goldengrove ...
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