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?

Key stage 3

Gwendolyn Brooks

How many syllables are in each line in a sonnet?

The soldier will have to 'play' with death when it tempts him.

'Would have to court coquettish death.' What does this line of the poem mean?