Question

read the poem \sonnet in primary colors\ by rita dove. 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, diego’s love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. what structural element is apparent in this poem?
○ repeating lines
○ rhyme scheme
○ regular meter
○ stanzas

Explanation:

The poem is divided into groups of lines (stanzas). Repeating lines aren't present, there's no consistent rhyme scheme, and the meter isn't regular. So stanzas are the apparent structural element.

Answer:

D. stanzas