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Line by Line Explanation of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening So this poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening has been highly acclaimed since its publication. The poem is rich in its use of figures of speech like imagery, alliteration and personification. To mingle the content with the structure is really a tough task. But what strikes us most is the use of a special form and rhyme scheme to express the theme so fluently. Actually the poem looks very simple in its use of language and also in the subject matter.These are all about the poetic elements used in the poem. So the rhyme scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD and it is written in Iambic tetrameter, having four stressed syllables in each line. As an exception, in the last stanza, all four lines are rhyming though.

For instance, in the first stanza ‘know’, ‘though’ and ‘snow’ rhyme, but ‘here’ rhymes with ‘queer’, ‘near’ and ‘year’ in the next stanza. The third line rather determines the rhyme of the next stanza. In each stanza the first, second and fourth lines rhyme but the third line does not.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening consists of four stanzas of four lines each.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost || Hamandista Academyīefore we go for a line-by-line analysis of the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, there are some important points to note about the structure or form of the poem, the style in which the poem is written, and the rhyme scheme followed,