Comment by zaphar

    What function does the stanza break serve? She says she 
    put it where it is because she's a performance poet and 
    thought it should go there.

That was just side commentary though. The question wasn't bad because the stanza breaks were arbitrary. The question was bad because the poem wasn't formatted correctly in the test itself.

The teacher was writing her because he himself couldn't figure out where the stanza breaks were and had to ask.