The Road Not Taken

When poets write, they use several elements to create their poem including rhyme, meter, symbol, allegory, denotation, connotation, and tone as well as many other elements. For example, some poems may be taken on more than one level, depending on the poet's own meaning or what the reader may bring to the poem. This would be known as an allegory. This paper will analyze the literature elements of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost - specifically looking at rhyme, meter, image, and meaning.

The rhyme scheme for this poem is abaab, cdccd, efeef, and ghggh. Each stanza is self-contained in its rhyme scheme, meaning that the rhymes only repeat themselves within each stanza, and not from stanza to stanza. For example, in the first stanza, neither the "oo" sound in "wood," nor the "o" sound in "both," is repe

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