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What type of verse form is Dylan Thomas' 'Do not Go Gentle into that good night'.

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"Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is written in a villanelle form. Villanelles were traditional poetic form of French. They became popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s in English-language poetry. A villanelle is divided into nineteen lines which comprises five tercets and a quatrain

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