Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure.
1. It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
(from "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe)
2. O thou, new-year, delaying long,
Delayest the sorrow in my blood,
That longs to burst a frozen bud
And flood a fresher throat with song.
(from "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson)
3. Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,;
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
(from "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost)
4. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair,
Whom young Apollo courted for her hair,
And offered as a dower his burning throne,
Where she should sit for men to gaze upon.
The outside of her garments were of lawn,
The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn;
(from "Hero and Leander" by Christopher Marlowe)
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B. Poem
C. quatrain
C. couplet
D. octave
D. sestet