Is there a rhetorical device in here?

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The_Ink_Goddess

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From Tom Jones (Henry Fielding):

Hence, too, must flow those tears which a widow sometimes so plentifully sheds over the ashes of a husband with whom she led a life of constant disquiet and turbulency, and whom now she can never hope to torment any more.

I feel like there's a rhetorical device in there (around hope/torment), but I can't think ANYTHING close to what it might be called. Any ideas?

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There is irony in the widow shedding tears "over the ashes of a husband with whom she led a life of constant disquiet and turbulency". Even though they may have loved each dearly , the change from turbulency to tears is ironic.
 
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