Question

Choose the poem that uses iambic meter.
A. I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
Facing a sheer sky.
Everything moved, -- a bell hung ready to strike,
Sun and reflection wheeled by.
B. Oh, did you hear those bells ring out,
The bells ring out, the people shout,
And did you hear that cheer on cheer
That over all the bells rang clear?

Answer 1

B.

Line 1 of B scans as iambic tetrameter: "oh DID / you HEAR / those BELLS / ring OUT" (unstressed–stressed ×4). The other lines follow the same unstressed–stressed pattern. A is more irregular and does not consistently use iambs.