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Select the correct text in the passage. Which lines from "Porphyrias Lover" change it from a love poem to a Gothic poem that evokes horror?Porphyrias Loverby Robert Browning (excerpt)But passion sometimes would prevail, Nor could tonight's gay feast restrainA sudden thought of one so pale For love of her, and all in vain:So, she was come through wind and rain. Be sure I looked up at her eyesHappy and proud; at last l knew Porphyria worshiped me: surpriseMade my heart swell, and still it grewWhile I debated what to do. That moment she was mine, mine, fair,Perfectly pure and good: I foundA thing to do, and all her hairIn one long yellow string l wound Three times her little throat around,And strangled her. No pain felt she;I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee,I warily oped her lids: againLaughed the blue eyes without a stain. And l untightened next the tressAbout her neck; her cheek once moreBlushed bright beneath my burning kiss:I propped her head up as before, Only, this time my shoulder boreHer head, which droops upon it still: The smiling rosy little head,So glad it has its utmost will,