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The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken. By Robert Frost Published in Mountain Interval in 1916. Created By: Shelby Gray and Blair Dean. Rhyme Scheme . 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

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The Road Not Taken

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  1. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Published in Mountain Interval in1916 Created By: Shelby Gray and Blair Dean

  2. 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.

  3. 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 • This stanza is iambic tetrameter followed by one dactyl

  4. Alliteration-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.

  5. Assonance-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”

  6. Consonance- Sound Device • In leaves no step had trodden wear • Yet knowing howway leads on the way • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- • Consonance is used throughout the whole poem including lines 12, 14, and 18.

  7. 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.

  8. Repetition- Sound Device Somewhere agesand ages hence: The word ages is repeated to emphasize the time that will go by. Line 1: Two roads diverged in Line 18: Two roads diverged in

  9. Imagery- Figurative Language • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, • The sense of sight is used • I shall be telling this with a sigh • The sense of sound was used

  10. Metaphor-Figurative Language • The entire poem is a large metaphor comparing two roads to making a life decision • Frost decides to take the less obvious and the one not traveled as much as the other

  11. Alliteration Consonance Assonance Repetition Imagery Parallelism This poem should stay in the Poetry section of the Glencoe textbook because it has a steady rhythm and rhyme scheme and also is full of great examples of poetic devices including: Keep the famous poem “The Road Not Taken” in our textbook.

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