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.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
By Dylan Thomas, from THE POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS, copyright ©1952 by Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp
Question
Use the stanzas to answer the question.
What is the rhyme scheme of these stanzas?
(1 point)
Responses
abcabc
abcabc
abbabb
abbabb
abccba
abccba
abaaba
1 answer
The rhyme scheme of the stanzas provided from "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is aba aba.
The first and third lines end with "night" and "light," creating an "a" rhyme. The second line ends with "day," creating a "b" rhyme, and the fourth line ends with "right," which matches the second line, thus confirming the "b" ending. Therefore, the final rhyme scheme for the stanzas is correctly represented as aba aba.
