Question

What type of poetry is used in the road not taken

Answer 1

In the poem 'The Road Not Taken,' Robert Frost uses figurative language to enrich its meaning. Most obviously, the poet employs metaphor and extended metaphor. The whole poem is an extended metaphor for life (the road) and the choices we must make along the way (the divergent paths).

Answer 2

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Metaphor: There are many metaphors in the poem like road, fork in the road and yellowwoods. The road in the poem is the metaphor of life, while the fork on the road metaphorically represents the choices we make to determine the course of our lives.

The Road Not Taken” consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB; the rhymes are strict and masculine, with the notable exception of the last line (we do not usually stress the -ence of difference). There are four stressed syllables per line, varying on an iambic tetrameter base.