The tone and attitude of the sentences?

Question

can you please just tell me like 1 or 2 words to describe the tone of the speakers sentences below? thanks!

1.my mistresses' eyes are nothing like the sun

2.an old,mad,blind,despised and dying king

3.he clasps the c**p with crooked hands

4.the holy time is as quiet as a nun, breathless with adoration.

5.if i should die, think only this of me. that there's a corner of a foreign field that is forever England.

6. if we must die, let it not be like hogs hunted and penned in an unglorious spot

7.love sets you going like a fat gold watch

8.up vistaed hopes i sped and shot precipitated adown titanic glooms of chasmed fears

9. smiling, the boy fell dead

10. you do me wrong to take me out of the grave, thou art a soul in bliss but i am bound upon a wheel of fire that mine own tearsdo scald like molten lead.

11. know then thyself, presume not God to scan the proper study of mankind is man

12.here lies one whose name was writ in the water

13. life is just one damned thing after another

Answer 1

1. funny, informal, mocking society.

2. mocking society, truthful, honest, blunt, factual.

3. pityful towards the subject, descriptive.

4. descriptive, figurative, calm mood.

5. relating to war, patriotic, sad.

6. like war, sad, desperateness of writer.

7. figurative, funny, informal.

8. trying to be clever, formal, descriptive, unmeaningful to common reader.

9. sinister, sad, making a point.

10. fierce but powerless, sad, powerful vocabulary.

11. not sure, sorry. sounds important though as it is realting to God, also formal language.

12. figurative, sad, moving.

13. sad, frustrating, informal, accessible to reader, mocking.

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