Identify the metaphor in the poem the way through the woods
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They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few)
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.
No consistent rhyme scheme is followed throughout the two stanzas of this poem by Kipling. However, end rhymes are common enough here. For example, the lines 2 and 4 (ending with the words “ago” and “know”) rhyme. So do lines 9 and 11 (ending with the words “sees” and “ease”), lines 10 and 12 (ending with the words “broods” and “woods”), lines 14 and 16 (ending with the words “late” and “mate”), lines 18 and 20 (ending with the words “few” and “dew”), and lines 21 and 23 (ending with the words “through” and “knew”). In addition to this, both lines 24 and 25 end with the same word – “woods”. This echoes the fact that the last word of the first stanza is also “woods”. Finally, what is not often noticed, but which once noticed cannot escape the reader’s attention, is that both the third and the seventh lines of each of the two stanzas contain internal rhymes. So in line 3, “rain” rhymes with “again”. In line 7, “underneath” rhymes with “heath”. In line 15, “cools” rhymes with “pools”. And in line 19, “beat” rhymes with “feet”.
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