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Dylan ThomasDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Literary Device Answers
1. B. The poem is defiant: “Do not go gentle” and “Rage, rage” repeat over and over.
2. A. The meter is a very formal and perfect iambic pentameter, the most common meter in English.
3. A. The rhyme scheme is the same for each verse except for the last, where a fourth line is added to make ABAA. (The poem’s structure, five three-line verses and a final four-line verse, is called a villanelle.)
4. Several answers are possible, among them: “Rage, rage” (alliteration and assonance); “blind eyes could blaze” (alliteration); “fierce tears” (assonance).
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