Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. read this excerpt from "after twenty years." there was now a fine, cold drizzle falling, and the wind had risen from its uncertain puffs into a steady blow. which statement best explains o. henry’s choice to set the story on a cold, dark, rainy night? it explains why bob does not recognize his friend jimmy when he talks to the policeman. it shows that bob and jimmy might not be able to meet because of inclement weather. it emphasizes how the weather patterns in new york city can affect peoples’ lives. it demonstrates o. henry’s deep understanding of what life is like in new york city.

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) quatrain couplet octave sestet