is decision may be satisfying to him, not looking back at what may have been but instead of what is here, what he is living for right now and the future that he has just planned for himself."The Road Not Taken" is masterfully written not just with a tell all title, forceful opening words, and an ironic final stanza but also with rhyme scheme. Frost wrote it in abaab meaning that the last word in the first, third, and fourth lines rhyme. Also, the last word of the second and fifth lines of the poem rhyme. The meter is tetrameter, meaning that there are four beats in a line (Banerjee and Shefali). Frost always used some rhyme scheme or meter in his poems often joking that writing free verse is like "playing tennis with the net down," (qtd. in ODonnell). Using rhymes almost give the poem a sing-song effect that makes it flow together easier, coming together as a whole.In the last stanza Frost says, "I shall be telling this with a sigh," implying that the path was chosen, and he hopes that the decision was the correct one. This common sigh could be of regret, how he wished that he would have taken the other. Likewise it could have been satisfaction, like a good sigh after the hard work of decision making. However, the sigh can also be taken in another light. The sigh could be just on the surface, for those who just "looked" at the poem. Looked at from that perspective, the sigh could just be of the narrator giving up, choosing the road in need of wear. Also, the sigh to more in-depth readers, could be TOWARDS the reader implying just as those who might think the narrator would live to be sorry for the choice he had taken on the road, in life. He will not regret the choice he has made, though because he knows that he will never again come across the break in the road. In choosing this road, he has sealed his fate for "ages and ages" in the future as he reminisces upon this decision.In conclusion, "The Road Not Taken" is another ...
