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?

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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

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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night