Read the following stanza from Audre Lorde's poem "Hanging Fire" and answer the question.


I am fourteen

and my skin has betrayed me

the boy I cannot live without

still sucks his thumb

in secret

how come my knees are

always so ashy

what if I die

before morning

and momma's in the bedroom

with the door closed.



While Lorde uses alliteration and assonance to create patterns of sound, she _____.

Adoes use the Elizabethan sonnet form

Bdoesn't use imagery

Cdoes use blank verse

Ddoesn't use a formal rhyme scheme