al feelings make up a range of experience entirely different from the experience of the rational thought that sums up the poem.All stanzas have a regular rhyme scheme of the last word of the first, second and fourth lines in each stanza (AABA, BBCB, etc.) except for the last stanza, which is all in the same rhyme (DDDD). Besides that, the last word from the third line rhymes with the following stanza’s lines one, two and four. These perfect rhymes and rhythms lend itself to the light restful feel of the poem. Frost’s choice of written words are much like spoken English which lends itself to the conversational feel that his poems have. Form wise, note the predominance of soft, sibilant sounds, evoking the "sweep of easy wind and downy flake"(11-12). Also the sounds associated with nature in the poem all sound soothing, such as "sweep"(11) and "deep"(13) which suggests further that the woods is a place of refuge for the man. The change in rhyme in the final stanza gives us a clue about the shift in the content, too. The shift comes at a point in the poem when we might expect an insight or answer to the question the poem poses, but the same rhyme throughout this final stanza suggests instead that the man is still thinking or still asking the questions. In addition, the final two lines repeat one another, which also suggests that a problem or tension still exists, that the poem doesn’t completely provide resolution. Every word has a key role in the deeper meaning of the poem. Normally poems are shorter than other works. This makes each word of a poem extremely significant. Frost’s major meaning seemed to be that one should take time to stop and notice the beauty around us but not to dawdle and dwell too long, as there is much to do in a lifetime. In the first stanza, "To watch his woods fill up with snow"(4), we see a man stopping in the forest to watch it fill up with snow. Here, the woods in the poem symbolize deat...
