I suffer! cried Demeter. "I suffer! Hereβ" She struck herself on the chest. "Hereβin my mother's heart. And if I suffer, then everyone else shall suffer, too. For the months that you spend with that scoundrel, no grass will grow, no flowers blow, no trees will bear. So long as you are below, there will be desolation everywhere."Which words contribute to the anguished mood of this passage?