What is the overall tone of this excerpt from "when we two parted" by lord byron?
they name thee before me,
a knell to mine ear;
a shudder comes o'er me—
why wert thou so dear?
they know not i knew thee,
who knew thee too well: --
long, long shall i rue thee,
too deeply to tell.
in secret we met—
in silence i grieve,
that thy heart could forget,
thy spirit deceive.
if i should meet thee
after long years,
how should i greet
with silence and tears.
a)somber
b)disstressful
c)bittersweet
d)joyful

The overall tone is B) distressful.

Explanation:

In Lord Byron's Poem "When We Two Parted", the speaker is describing the way he feels after a breakup. Since other people don't know about this previous relationship, they mention his loved one's name, and that causes the speaker great pain. His tone is sad; he employs words that indicate he laments having lost that other person, such as "rue", "grieve", "silence", and "tears". He believes he woudn't even be able to greet the other person without crying if they were to meet again someday.

my sister gave her a record.

my sister gave a record to her.

explanation:

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen