She fears him, and will always ask
what fated her to choose him;
she meets in his engaging mask
all reasons to refuse him;
but what she meets and what she fears 5
are less than are the downward years,
drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
of age, were she to lose him.
. . . . . . . . . .
a sense of ocean and old trees
envelops and allures him;
tradition, touching all he sees,
beguiles and reassures him; 20
and all her doubts of what he says
are dimmed of what she knows of days --
till even prejudice delays
and fades, and she secures him.
contrast the speaker's tone in lines 1-8 with the speaker's tone in lines 17-20. which of these best describes the shift?
a) the speaker's tone changes from jubilant to despondent.
b) the speaker's tone changes from confidence to resignation.
c) the speaker's tone changes from resignation to confidence.
d) the speaker's tone changes from joyfulness to resignation.