Answer:In the first quatrain, the speaker simply exclaims the comparison, painting a picture of the winter: “How like a winter hath my absence been / From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! / What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
Explanation:
The imagery is “the sun shone brightly on them half the day” because its giving a better idea of what whatever they are talking about is like in the day
"On kin of cain" through to "that woful breed" Cain was the child of Adam and Eve, who killed his brother.
Drawing names out of a box without anyone else seeing.
