Morten St George Theory

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As you can see, the first line accurately describes the poet's flower, and observe that there's a macron in the last line. Another macron cannot be found elsewhere in that lengthy poem and, as a general rule, macrons are not normally employed in the English language.



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Sure they were. Not quite as often as Latin, but they certainly used them.

That's a printed book. Macrons were gradually dropped in printed books, which were for a wider audience. But they existed in manuscripts.