14th century poets relied on <em>allteration </em>to make their verses easy to memorize.
It is a metaphor for troubles and hard times. He says that these "clouds" are now gone, and this is due to the fact that "the winter of his discontent" is over, due to the joyous reign of king Edward IV.
I am pretty sure that these lines convey a conversational and inquisitive tone, because there areseveral of rhetorical question which are being mention in very moving speech. That's why I consider B as the correct option, hope it helps!
