Lincoln states in his letter to Miss Merry Speed, a personal friend, that he was amazed to see that the slaves on the boat were happy even though they were bought and were being shipped off to plant in the South. This made him contemplate the effect of the condition upon the happiness of people.
Exclamatory sentence and fragment
Answer:
a clause that can form a complete sentence standing alone, having a subject and a predicate
Ponder means "to think about (something) carefully," which is most similar to D. Reflect. Ponder basically means, "to reflect on" something.
In stanza 3 of the poem, the boy shows that he is both <em>brave and patient</em>. He demonstrates bravery by taking his vorpal sword in hand to hunt the creature. However, he also shows that he is patient by resting and standing a while in thought.