Good Night Thomas Analysis

Literary aspects in the poem include figure of speech, imagery, rhyme, rhythm and form. In stanza one the rhythm of the poem is in iambic pentameter, where there are ten syllables in each line and every other syllable is stressed. As well as the rest of the poem stanza one’s rhyme scheme is ABA. The phrases “good night”, “close of day”, and “dying of the light” are metaphors for death. Thomas is advising the elderly, like his father, to “burn and rave” in other words fight against death. Another literary device is the repetition of vowel sounds called assonance in line 2-3. In stanza 2, Thomas mentions wise men. These types of men feel as if they haven’t completed all their goals they have set in life, so they continue to fight death to complete