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Read the line from "Do not go gentle into that good night." Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, The meter, if any, from this line is

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The meter from this line is pentameter, and to be more precise, this is an iambic pentameter.
Iambic means that the first syllable in the line is unstressed, and that it is followed by a stressed one. Here, you can see that DO in the beginning is unstressed, and the accent is placed on the second syllable, NOT. Pentameter means that there are five meters (penta means 5), and given that one meter consists of 2 syllables approximately, pentameter consists of 10 syllables in each line. 

The lines from, "Do not go gentle into that good night." have iambic pentameter.

"Do not go gentle into that good night." is the poem written by Dylan Thomas. The poem is a metaphor of nigh symbolized to death. It is based on the fear of death among elderly people.

What is a meter?

The meter in poetry is the rhythmic structure of a line. It is based on the number of syllables in the line, and the arrangement of the emphasis.

In the given lines, has the first word unstressed followed by the stressed word. The meter is iambic. There has been pentamer in the rhythmic structure,

Therefore, the meter in the given line is iambic pentameter.

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