Read the excerpt from the poem "Easter, 1916" by William Butler Yeats. What is the foot pattern? Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey

Answer: b. iamb (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)

Explanation:

The foot pattern used is that of an Iamb.

An Iamb is one of the most popular metrical feet in Poetry and was used intensively by Shakespeare.

A word is considered an Iamb when it starts with unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This means that while the first syllable is short, the following syllable is accented and long. For example, among or instead. It can be two words like she-will.

In a line it follows the same concept, an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable.

In the above that would be,

Coming with vivid faces

From counter or desk among grey.