Language in 'the sonnet-ballad'

English

Because she thinks her heart is useless like an empty cup without having someone to love.

Why does Brooks call her heart an 'empty heart-cup?'

Fill in the gap in the sentence: Brooks _______ death by describing it as 'the other woman.'

to emphasise that he had no choice in going to war.

Why did Brooks repeat the phrase 'would have to' in her poem?

Brooks forgot she had written it the first time.

Brooks is showing the reader that this story is one which has happened before and will happen again.

Brooks wants to remind us that the speaker is asking for help.

It is the main point of the poem and so should be repeated.

The first and last line of the poem are the same: "Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?" Why are they repeated?

What technique is used by Brooks in the first and last line? 'Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?'

Poetry which does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm

allowing all people to use the same toilets

separate toilets for black people and white people

smiling at people on the other side of the road

Because it has the wrong number of lines.

Because it is not written by Shakespeare.

Because the rhyme and rhythm is not traditional and is more musical.

Why is 'the sonnet-ballad' not a traditional sonnet?

What book of poems was 'the sonnet-ballad' published in?