Question

What are the poetic devices used in the poem "The Road Not Taken" (Class 9 Beehive)
Here's the poem
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;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
ROBERT FROST

Answer 1

Answer:

Metaphor - The whole poem is an extended metaphor and the road acts as a metaphor for life.

Alliteration - “wanted wear”

Personification - The fork in the woods refers to the life decisions one has to make.

Repetition - “Somewhere ages and ages hence”

Consonance and assonance - “And that has made all the difference.” “Yet knowing how way leads on to way”

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Answer 2

metaphor

alliteration

symbolism

rhyme scheme