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a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. The ______uses only two rhymes which are repeated as follows: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa. Line 1 is repeated entirely to form lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated entirely to form lines 9, 15, and 19; thus, eight of the nineteen lines are refrain. Dylan Thomas’s poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is an example of this as is Plath’s "Mad Girl’s Love Song

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The answer is villanelle.

Step-by-step explanation:

A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem, constituted of five tercets and a quatrain. The rhyming scheme for those lines is: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa. Some lines are repeated throughout the poem. The repeated lines are called refrains. Thus, the description given in the question is that of a villanelle. Let's check those characteristics in Dylan Thomas's poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night":

(First tercet)

Do not go gentle into that good night, A

Old age should burn and rave at close of day; B

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A

(Second tercet)

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, A

Because their words had forked no lightning they B

Do not go gentle into that good night. A

(Third tercet)

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright A

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, A

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A

(Fourth tercet)

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, A

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, B

Do not go gentle into that good night. A

(Fifth tercet)

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight A

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, B

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A

(Quatrain)

And you, my father, there on the sad height, A

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. B

Do not go gentle into that good night. A

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A

Rhyming scheme: night and the words that rhyme with it - A; day and the words that rhyme with it - B.

Refrains: "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying of the light".

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