Question

“Now she’s has been dead nearly as many years

Answer 1

Answer:

the death of Betty and Dolly

the poet's sense of loss is too deep to express

alliteration

the poet's sense of loss and helplessness

Explanation:

According to the given excerpt, the emotions are one's of tragedy and sorrow at the deaths of Betty and Dolly.

The narrator even describes the pain and sense of loss as too painful that he had "nothing to say at all".

There is the use of alliteration with the expression "the silence silences"