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fore-bemoaned
fore-bemoaned is to have complained/expressed grief over something in the past.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, 5 For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er 10 The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
The iambic pentameter is each of the lines I explained creates a smooth and effective rhythm in the poem.
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The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan
Like the previous one, odd syllables are unstressed, and even ones are stressed. The is unstressed, sad is stressed, a is unstressed, ccount is stressed, etc.
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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night
Odd syllables are unstressed, and even ones are stressed. For, which is the first syllable, is unstressed, pre is stressed, cious is unstressed, etc.
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
This is the turn. He was lamenting the fact that he no longer had what he used to, but he now is fondly remembering it and is happy.
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Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow
Then is unstressed, can is stressed, I is unstressed, drown is stressed, etc.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, 5 For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er 10 The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Lines 1 and 3, lines 2 and 4, lines 5 and 7, lines 6 and 8, lines 9 and 11, lines 10 and 12, and lines 13 and 14 rhyme.
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the playwright who is an icon of Englishness has also become a central feature of the American dream
In my opinion, Shakespeare is not a central figure of the American dream, as he is not from America and I do not believe that any non American can be central in the American dream.
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