13. The Elaborated Complex Sentence

My sentence:

Bemoaning the state of his existence, bereft, downtrodden, so blue, Sparky wondered just when he'd next be fed.

Other Examples:

"And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled out into view, surging from side to side, spasmodically dilating and contracting his spout hole with sharp, cracking, agonized breaths."

Herman Melville, Moby Dick the White Whale

The death dance of the first whale killed by the Pequod is described. This is also an example of asyndeton.

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as they surely will be, by the better angels of our nature."

Abraham Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address"

Civil War looms. Mr. Lincoln's speech evokes memories of the War for Independence, the vastness of the young country, and calls on man's better and patriotic nature. To Mr. Lincoln, preserving the union was sacrosanct, of far greater importance than abolishing slavery.