Journal 29

A villanelle is a nineteen line poemt hat contains five tercets and a quatrain. There are two different rhymes schemes throughout the poem.  The first and third lines of the first terect repeat and alternate and the end of each other terects and in the quatrain they both repeat.
A terza rima is a poem with tercets with iambs that contain rhyme scheme of something similar to ABA BCB CDC.
A sestina is a poem with six sestets and a tercet. Each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, in different orders throughout the poem.

This an example of a Villanelle

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

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,

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 
Do not go gentle into that good night,

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.




This villanelle is expressing his belief that old man should resist death , they should not take death lightly.  He believes they should leave this world making a scene , meaning they should kick, scream and do whatever they need to in order to not just fall into death' hands and make it easy for death. The end of the poem the speaker tells us that his own father is dying that is why he does not want old people to give up, he wants them to fight as long as they possible can. He does not to lose his father.  This poem is a villanelle which is easy to notice because of the constant repetition of the lines "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying light". This poem is a great example of a Villanelle.