Question

choose the poem that uses iambic meter. the sun that brief december day rose cheerless over hills of gray, and, darkly circled, gave at noon a sadder light than waning moon. thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, great, hollow, bell - like flowers, rumbling in the wind, stretching clappers to strike our ears. from john greenleaf whittier, a new england home in winter and from jean toomer, storm ending

Explanation:

To determine which poem uses iambic meter, we analyze the stress pattern. An iamb is a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (˘ ´).

For the first poem (from Whittier):

• "The sun" (˘ ´), "that brief" (˘ ´), "December day" (˘ ´ ˘ ´), etc. Most lines follow a consistent iambic pattern (e.g., iambic tetrameter or similar, with alternating unstressed - stressed syllables).

For the second poem (from Toomer):

• The rhythm is more free - form, with irregular stress patterns (e.g., "Thunder blossoms" has a different stress flow than iambic, and the lines vary in metrical structure).

So the first poem (with lines "The sun that brief December day...") uses iambic meter.

Answer:

The poem with lines "The sun that brief December day / Rose cheerless over hills of gray, / And, darkly circled, gave at noon / A sadder light than waning moon." (from John Greenleaf Whittier, "A New England Home in Winter")