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?

8, 7, 8, 6; 8, 6, 8, 6
8, 8, 8, 8; 8, 8, 8, 8
8, 7, 8, 7; 8, 7, 8, 7
6, 7, 6, 7; 6, 7, 6, 7