Sequence in Hospital. Pain.

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At my wits’ end
And all resources gone, I lie here,

These lines show the inability of the persona to think clearly or to cope with reality. Her mental capability and her usual resources to handle everyday situations seem to have disappeared. As the persona is lying in a place which we assume to be a psychiatric hospital, we conclude she is suffering from some sort of mental illness. The immediacy of her situation is conveyed by the use of the present and by the deictic “here”.