![]() ![]() ![]() The rhyme-and-refrain pattern of "Do not go gentle into that good night" can be schematized, as shown below. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas. The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines ( tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It has no title other than its first line, "Do not go gentle into that good night", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light". It has been suggested that the poem was written for Thomas's dying father, although he did not die until just before Christmas in 1952. Subsequent publication, along with other Thomas works, include In Country Sleep, And Other Poems ( New Directions, 1952) and Collected Poems, 1934–1952 ( Dent, 1952). Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family. ![]() " Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. ![]()
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