The Road Not Taken Extended Metaphor

In the two poems The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and Maggie and Milly and Molly and May by e.e. cummings, the authors use extended metaphors of life, contradicting rhyme schemes, and nature symbolism to discuss the themes of losing youth, but also of finding identity. The central theme of both poems is the discussion of life through the use of an extended metaphor. Instead of using specified realistic scenarios, the author of TRNT uses the common analogy of the two paths of life, as seen when Frost begins with “two roads diverged into a yellow wood”, that a person finds himself at, while the author of MMMM uses a more abstract approach by writing the poem
On another note, TRNT and MMMM have drastically different rhyme schemes which also