Question

And be one traveler, long I stood

( Name and explain the figure of speech from the above sentence)​

Answer 1

Answer:

Metaphor. The poet is equating a simple trip home with life's journey, complete with its crossroads/decisions.

Explanation:

Here, poet Robert Frost means that being the only traveller, he could not travel both the roads at the same time. He had to choose one of the two. Therefore, the poet stood there for a long time staring at two roads diverging from one.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. There are multiple poetic devices used in Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken. In the first line, the poet used assonance.