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:

A sonnet typically has a rhyme scheme. Let's check the given poem. Lines like "eyes - erect - peasant - present" (though not a perfect traditional rhyme in some cases but there is an attempt at rhyming sounds in a pattern) and other line - end words show a rhyme - like pattern. There are no repeating lines. The meter is not regular (doesn't follow a strict pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables throughout). And it's not divided into stanzas (a stanza is a grouped set of lines, and this poem is a continuous block in terms of line - grouping as per the sonnet form which is usually one unit).

Answer:

rhyme scheme