Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
a) What does the speaker encounter while on his journey in the forest?
b) Why is the speaker ‘sorry’?
c) Infer the season. How do you know?
d) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem
class 9 english chapter the road not taken
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Answer:
a) The speaker encountered two roads diverging in yellow woods on his journey in the forest.
b)The speaker is ' sorry ' because he is a single traveller and can not travel both the roads and explore their mysteries.
c) It is autumn season. We could know this as the forest is covered with yellow leaves. This is indicated by the word ' yellow woods '.
d) Rhyme scheme of the poem is abaab
wood in the first line rhymes with 3rd line stood and 4th line could.
both in the 2nd line rhymes with undergrowth in the 4th line
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Answer:
a) The speaker encountered two roads
diverging in yellow woods on his journey
in the forest.
bThe speaker is 'sorry ' because he is
a single traveller and can not travel both
the roads and explore their mysteries.
c) It is autumn season. We could know
this as the forest is covered with yellow
leaves. This is indicated by the word'
yellow woods.
d) Rhyme scheme of the poem is abaab
wood in the first line rhymes with 3rd
line stood and 4th line could.