This poet dedicated an ode to “the happy memory of five Franciscan Nuns” who were killed in a shipwreck. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this English Jesuit poet of “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” This poet used diacritics to mark stressed syllables in meters as part of pioneering “sprung rhythm.”
ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins
[10m] In this poem’s final stanza, the words “shéer plód” are marked with diacritics to stress them. This Hopkins poem about the title bird opens, “I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- / dom of daylight’s dauphin.”
ANSWER: “The Windhover”
[10h] Hopkins adapted this Welsh poetic technique to write the line “Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend.” In a form of this technique whose name means “harmony,” consonants in the first half of a line are repeated in the second half.
ANSWER: cynghanedd (“kung-HAH-neth”) (The poem in the first line is “The Sea and the Skylark.”)
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