Analyzing The Poem That's My Line: Once More To The Lake

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That’s My Line- Once More to the Lake
Line 3: “It seemed to me, as I kept remembering all this, that those times and those summers had been infinitely precious and worth saving.” A sentence has the power to completely shift the tone of a piece, to inflict nostalgia of your own, or simply state information. This simple sentence, with multiple commas and phrases, is gratuitous in its delivery, but with a reason. The repetitive use of commas is similar to the way the author kept remembering the summers, frequently, and with an air of longing. When you have a memory, you reflect upon it often and try to dwell on as many details of it as possible, just like the structure of this sentence. It begins the second paragraph by explaining what the author