Question

The old moon is tarnished

Answer 1

The answer is D

The poet describes the leaves as having a color like blood in the first stanza to add to the murderous answer forbidding tone of the poem. The poem is about a child drowning, and so the word blood foreshadows the dark events later in the poem

Answer 2

The answer is :    D

D- to add to the murderous and forbidding tone of the poem