=6.= For, though the graybeard fought with sobbing breath, etc.
A wrestling match in which death has a “strangling grip” on
Hugh. Note the vividness of physical imagery, “neck veins like a
purple thong tangled with knots.” What biblical allusion in
“break upon the hip”?
=11.= There where the trail forked outward far and dim;
What “trail forked outward”?
=13.= His moan went treble like a song of pain,
Does the voice become like a shrill song under such
circumstances?
=20.= For dying is a game of solitaire, etc.
A grim epigram.
Define: treble, solitaire.