The tone is basically to me dark and sad
The Great Vowel Shift was primarily a change in phonetics.
Phonetics is a linguistic field which has to do with sounds in a language.
According to the words used by the poet, they made the reader visualize a little village with a group of hardworking men. I know this because of the little details the poet used, like ‘washing their red hands’, or ‘easing their stiff limbs’, meaning that they are tired for an exhausting day of work. To sum it up, the poet gave the effect of a hard working, nostalgic effect.
Motif can be created through the use of imagery so it should be D :P