Read the stanza from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

Which line of the stanza contains an allusion?


"By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,"

"Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'"

"Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—"

"'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,"