Question

choose the poem that has a regular rhythm, or a pattern of sound like a beat.
i breathed a song into the air,
it fell to earth, i knew not where;
for who has sight so keen and strong
that it can track the flight of song?

i thought:
the moon,
shining upon the many steps of the palace before me,
shines also upon the checkered rice fields
of my native land.

adapted from henry wadsworth longfellow, \the arrow and the song\ and adapted from amy lowell,

Explanation:

The first poem has a consistent rhythmic beat (iambic tetrameter, with each line following a pattern of unstressed-stressed syllables that creates a steady, beat-like sound). The second poem has no regular syllable count or rhythmic pattern.

Answer:

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can track the flight of song?