![]() The rhymes in “The Road Not Taken” are end rhymes which are also perfect rhymes. There are four beats per line, employing iambic tetrameter. Rhyme Scheme: The whole poem follows ABAAB rhyme scheme.Here, each stanza is a quintain such as the first one or the second one. Quintain: A quintain is a five-lined stanza borrowed from Medieval French Poetry.In this poem, there are four stanzas with each stanza having five verses or lines. Stanza : A stanza is a poetic form of a fixed number of lines.The analysis of some of the major poetic devices used in this poem is given here. Analysis of Poetic Devices in “The Road Not Taken”Īlthough most of the poetic devices are part of literary devices, some devices are only used in poems. Frost has used Parallelism in the poem such as Ĭoncluding the literary analysis, it can be argued that Robert Frost has beautifully used various literary devices to make the poem display multiplicity of interpretation which has gained the poem much deserved popularity. Parallelism: Parallelism is the use of a source of words, phrases or sentences that have similar grammatical forms.Here, it is stated “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” as if the road is human, and that it wants to wear and tear. Personification: Robert Frost has personified road in the third line of the second stanza.Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds such as /d/ in “two roads diverging in a yellow wood” and /t/ sound in “though as far as the passing there.”. ![]()
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