Question

What is the effect of envisioning “aged years” as needing a staff in these lines from the passage? By that time will my aged years perhaps a staff require:

Answer 1

From the line : By that time will my aged years perhaps a staff require, 
the effect of envisioning "aged years" would be : it reveal how weary the speaker is of waiting to see what effect she might have had on others/

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