AN APOSTROPHE ’
The comma, plac’d as here you see,
From the word LOV’D has snatch’d a letter;
It bears the name APOSTROPHE:—
And, perhaps, you can’t contrive a better.
In poetry ’tis chiefly found,
Where sense should coincide with sound.
A dash — Circumflex ^ Breve ˘ Diæresis ¨ Hyphen - Acute Accent ´ Grave Accent ` Parenthesis ( )
A DASH & a CIRCUMFLEX here form a hat;
A BREVE serves to mark out the face;
DIÆRESIS, too, & the HYPHEN come pat,
As a breast & a neck in their place:
The arms are the Accents, both GRAVE & ACUTE,
And for legs the PARENTHESIS nicely may suit.
YOU
DON’T SEE
The use of me.
Don’t you see
a Caret