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"Old age should burn and rave at close of day..." This line from Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is an example of which of the following?

Slant rhyme
Internal rhyme
A villanelle
A sonet

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Answer:

A villanelle

Step-by-step explanation:

Villanelle comes from the word villano, in Italian, which means “peasant.’ Actually, villanelle is a name given to a dance song coupled with pastoral themes. In literature, though, it is a poetic device. In a villanelle, the poem must have 19 lines in a fixed form of five tercets and a quartrain.

The fixed form is as follows:

(A1) refrain 1

Line 2 (b)

(A2) refrain 2

Line 4 (a)

Line 5 (b)

(A1) refrain 1

Line 7 (a)

Line 8 (b)

(A2) refrain 2

Line 10 (a)

Line 11 (b)

(A1) refrain 1

Line 13 (a)

Line 14 (b)

(A2) refrain 2

Line 16 (a)

Line 17 (b)

(A1) refrain 1

(A2) refrain 2

"Old age should burn and rave at close of day..." is one of the refrains of the poem, which is a vilanelle.

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