Read these lines from "Annabel Lee" and answer the question.


And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,

In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.


The shift in the poem’s rhythm in these lines signifies _____.


the conclusion of the poem

that the poem is a sonnet

the speaker’s confusion

an irregular rhyme scheme