hat excitement is severed by his admission in the following lines. way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back(3.14,15). In the final stanza, lines 16-20 the tone of the poem changes completely. This is the only stanza that begins with a new sentence, indicating that it is a stronger break from the previous ideas. The speaker puts himself in a future situation discussing his life. What he states here seems to contradict what he has said earlier. From his future prospective he says that the paths where different and that he did not choose the one most traveled by. Perhaps he will in the future actually believe this and he only wishes that he could choose in the present the one less traveled by.(5.20)The Road Not Taken was structured by Frost to form four quintains. The majority of the lines contain nine syllables. This structure is maintained through out the poem. The stanzas are arranged like that of a thought. One continues to undermine the other, much like decision making. Our first thoughts are always second-guessed by our second and so forth until we make our final decision, which cancels out all that was thought before. This is what Frost manages to do in the arrangement of his stanzas.Imagery is the primary concept of this work. The two roads are each described in such a way that the reader can easy picture the dilemma faced by the traveler. Image is so precise that we can picture the first road bending to the right while the other bends in the opposite direction. The image of one being grassy and wanting wear(2.8) seems to maintain in the readers mind even after it is mentioned that they appear just the same. Imagery is the means used by Frost to convey the poems message.The Road Not Taken, follows an a,b,a,a,b rhyme patter which is consistent through out the poem. Its nine syllables make up an iambic tetrameter, which is not consistent but is the overbearing meter at work. In line 22 repetition is used which str...
