I dont see the stanza but maybe to signal its past tense.
<span>When he made the speech, he was standing under the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.</span>
William Blake was 70 when he died
Answer:
One of the most famous and prolific inventors of all time, Thomas Alva Edison exerted a tremendous influence on modern life, contributing inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and telephone.
