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tree_and_leaf ([personal profile] tree_and_leaf) wrote 2009-04-28 11:04 pm (UTC)

They're stress marks to help you to scan Hopkins' admittedly rather peculiar metre, and used when the scansion is ambiguous. Nothing to do with religious symbolism, for once!
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