Answer:
"Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,"
"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite"
Explanation:
There are several lines in this poem that express desperation, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,"
"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite"
In these lines, the narrator expresses he is helpless because he cannot find the inspiration he wants for his writings, and it desperates him.
