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At the gate of Hell the reason that Dante calls this inscription “hard to take" is obvious. He is worried due to the fact that the anaphora really drives the point home, with it's deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence which is "Through me pass".
This emphasizes that you must pass through the gate of Hell, only thing reigns supreme and really matters in hell, and "All Hope Abandon, You Who Enter Here" meaning only one way in and only one way out.
Because the gate reigns over the land and all must pass through it, so it therefore passes judgement on all creatures who dare or are forced enter and none can ever escape the "Painful City" and the "Eternal Grief" that awaits them there beyond those blackened gates.
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