In "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost discusses the long-reaching effects of decisions.
Frost does this by telling about a time that he came across two roads "that diverged" (split apart) "in a yellow wood." He knew that he could not "travel both," so he "looked down one as far [he] could." Then, he took the other road, which was not as well-travelled as the other: "it was grassy and wanted wear."
Frost considers the option of returning someday to the other road, but he knows it is not likely to happen:
knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
He realizes that his decision will have an effect for the rest of his life:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Like most of Frost's poems, "The Road Not Taken" has a regular meter: each line contains approximately 9 syllables.
The poem rhymes, in an unusual ABAAA rhyme scheme.
It uses one fairly simply image, that of the two roads diverging in the woods.
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