A Past Perfect Tense indicates actions that have been accomplished or done in the past before another action takes place. In the choices given, the example of the sentence that uses past perfect tense is, "Carl had asked his mother's permission before he left town."
Answer:In the third quatrain, he dismisses the “wanton burthen of the prime”—that is, the bounty of the summer—as unreal, as the “hope of orphans.” It could not have been fathered by summer, because “summer and his pleasures” wait on the beloved, and when he is gone, even the birds are silent.
Explanation:
It was a earthquake which made it collapse.
