Key Facts

• Title: Poem in October
• Poet: Dylan Marlais Thomas
• Written Date: 1944 (on the poet’s 30th birthday)
• Publication Date: 1946, in his collection of poetry “Deaths and Entrances”
• Form: Lyric Poem (personal, full of emotions and imagery)
• Meter and Rhyme Scheme: Thomas wrote the poem in blank/free verse. It means the poem does not have a rhyme scheme or consistent meter.
• Total Lines/Stanza: 7 stanzas, each with 10 lines (total: 70 lines). Each of the poem's seven 10-line stanzas pulses from longer lines to shorter ones and back again.
• Tone: Joyful, Nostalgic, Serious, Thoughtful