Read the poem “The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean” below and answer the question that follows.
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
Which of the following is the pattern of beats in the poem?
1. 8, 7, 8, 7; 8, 7, 8, 7
2. 8, 8, 8, 8; 8, 8, 8, 8
3. 8, 7, 8, 6; 8, 6, 8, 6
6, 7, 6, 7; 6, 7, 6, 7
