Villanelle of the third and fifth stanzas. The rhyme-and-refrain pattern of the villanelle can be schematized as AbA abA abA abA abA abAA where letters ("a" and "b") indicate the two rhyme sounds, upper case indicates a refrain ("A"), and superscript numerals ( and ) indicate Refrain 1 and Refrain 2. The pattern is below set against "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas: The villanelle has no established meter, although most 19th-century villanelles have used trimeter or tetrameter and most 20th-century villanelles have used pentameter. Slight alteration of the refrain line is permissible. With reference to
An Inquiry into the Good readers as the first truly creative work by a Japanese that did not merely repeat western ideas, and yet made use of modern thinking and terminology." However, according to Smart, the work was criticized by the philosopher Takahashi Satomi, who found the subjectivism of "pure experience" too psychological. An Inquiry into the Good An Inquiry into the Good, also known as A Study of Good, () is a 1911 book by the Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida. The work has been described as a masterpiece. Graham Parkes, writing in "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy" (2005), described "An Inquiry into the Good"