Question

choose the poem that uses iambic meter.
through the blue water of night
rises the white bubble of silence—
rises,
and breaks.

with quiet step and gentle face,
with tattered cloak, and empty hands,
she came into the market place,
a traveller from many lands.

from evelyn scott,
ight music\ and from dollie radford, \a ballad of victory\

Explanation:

Iambic meter has a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (e.g., "be - GIN"). Analyzing the second poem: "With (unstressed - stressed) quiet (unstressed - stressed) step (unstressed - stressed) and (unstressed - stressed) gentle (unstressed - stressed) face (unstressed - stressed)", and the other lines follow this iambic pattern. The first poem has irregular stress patterns.

Answer:

The poem "With quiet step and gentle face, With tattered cloak, and empty hands, She came into the market place, A traveller from many lands." (from Dollie Radford, "A Ballad of Victory")