Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems
What is the figurative language, structure, and rhyme scheme of the following poems:Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Acquainted with the Night, We Grow Accustomed to the Dark?
Reading and analyzing poetry
Reading and analyzing poetry
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
The rhyme scheme consists of A-B-A format; although the last stanza has a rhyme scheme of A-B-A-A.
Figurative language:
“wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight.”
assonance: “fierce tears” (line 17)
simile: “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,” (line 4)
Structure:
five three-line stanzas with one four line stanza at the end
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night