Question

this is for the woman with one black wing perched over her eyes: lovely frida, erect among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, who painted herself a present— wildflowers entwining the plaster corset her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— this priestess in the romance of mirrors. each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, diegos love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. what is the most likely reason rita dove chose to call this poem a sonnet? the work has no rhyme scheme. the subject is romantic in nature. the poem contains 14 lines. each stanza has seven lines.

Explanation:

A sonnet is a 14 - line poem. The presence of 14 lines is a key characteristic that defines a sonnet. Lack of a rhyme scheme is not typical for sonnets, and the romantic nature of the subject or the number of lines in stanzas are not the defining features of a sonnet.

Answer:

The poem contains 14 lines.