The first line of Dylan Thomas's poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is called the first refrain. This poem is structured as a villanelle, which involves the repetition of the first and third lines throughout the stanzas, but the specific term for the first line is the first refrain.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Question
Use Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” to answer the question.
In this poem, what is the first line called, in poetic terms?
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first refrain
first refrain
introductory line
introductory line
stanza
stanza
villanelle
villanelle
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