Line 1: Two roads diverged in Line 18: Two roads diverged in

Repetition- Sound Device Somewhere agesand ages hence: The word ages is repeated to emphasize the time that will go by. Parallelism- Sound Device Andsorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could The writer uses the word and to connect the three lines by using parallelism. Consonance is used throughout the whole poem including lines 12, 14, and 18.

This stanza is iambic tetrameter followed by one dactylĪlliteration-Sound Device Then took the other, as just as fair, Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there In lines six, eight and nine the author uses alliteration.Īssonance-Sound Device Frost uses assonance in line 7 by saying “And having perhaps the better claim,” He also uses assonance in line 16 saying “I shall be telling this with a sigh”.Rhythm Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth Rhyme Scheme Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travelboth And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth A B A A B The rhyme scheme in this poem is ABAAB and continues that way throughout the poem. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Published in Mountain Interval in1916 Created By: Shelby Gray and Blair Dean

Rhyme scheme of the road not taken