The sentence should be "I had joined the soccer team to meet new friends" if you're looking for a past perfect tense verb, since this is indication it is something that is not repeated.
In poetry, diction is the poet’s style of speaking or writing
The answer is C. It makes the poem sound more like a conversation between the poet and reader.
In "House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton, Lily Barth is stressed about the lines on her face because she relied on her beauty to be successful, and she was worried that she was beginning to show signs of aging. She quickly dismissed the lines as just being tired.