Woe, pestilence, famine
flood, ruin, exhaustion
and lamentations;
Melancholia, weeping, mourning
tribulation, strife, trepidation
and catastrophe;
Betrayal, regret, bitterness
failure, anguish, loss
and cataclysm;
Grief, affliction, infirmity
decay, decrepitude, depredation
and
extinction.
An interesting litany of lamentations !
A rivettingly strung together string of woes ,making the reader go to it again and again .