How Does The Rhyme Scheme Of The Road Not Taken

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost contains four stanzas of five lines. Each stanza has a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. The poem begins by saying the problem and setting that a traveler comes to a fork in the road during the fall. Frost shows the reader that the season is fall by the color of the trees’ leaves, “yellow wood.”
In the first two stanzas, Frost takes the role of the traveler and begins to explain both paths. One path being full of nature and beautiful while the other looking worn down and barren. Frost (the traveler) would like to travel both paths but he is only one person and can only travel the one. “Then took the other, as just as fair,” Frost took the path he saw and explained as “grassy” and in his mind “the better claim.” Even though he has chosen a road he still has some uncertainties about not taking the other road.
In the third stanza starts a new day and the traveler comes up to the two paths again but he can’t tell which path is which because of leaves that are the ground. Frost then takes the one he remembers taking because he knows the result but again has regrets of not taking the other road. Choosing the same road twice makes him think that going back to the fork in the road will just lead him to the same place,” Yet knowing how way leads on to way./ I doubted if I should every go back.” Even though going back may …show more content…
After all these years the traveler took the other road. Frost repeated “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” brings back the importance of the poem and that the author has had a realization of what has happened before and what could happen. From his realization, he feels he has learned something from his travels and his journey along these paths that’s why he believes he “took the road less traveled by,” because he feels like he has gained more from it “and that has made all the