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By Robert Frost


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TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wantedwear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Whatdoesthismean?


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Poetry

Type of rhythmic, compressed languagethat uses figures of speech and imageryto appeal to the readers emotions andimagination.


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Rhyme Scheme

The pattern of end rhymes ina poem

Repetition of accented vowelsounds, and all soundsfollowing them, in words thatare close together in a poem.

Rhyme schemes are shownby letters (aabbcc)


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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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Speaker

Voice that is talking to us in a poem.

It is never the poet.


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I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ageshence:Two roads diverged in a wood,

and II took the one less traveled by,And that has made all thedifference. Who is the

speaker?


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Meter

Generally regular pattern of stressed andunstressed syllables in poetry.

A foot is usually between 2-3 feet, a

combination of accented and unaccentedsyllables.


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! ! - ! - - ! - !Two roads / di verged / in a yel / low wood

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Two roads / di verged / in a yel / low wood

- ! ! - - - ! - !And be / one trav el / er long / I stood

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And looked / down one / as far / as I could

- ! - ! - - ! - !To where / it bent / in the un / der growth


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Stanza

Group of consecutive lines in poem thatforms a single unit.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood


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TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

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