Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Analysis
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Summary and composition

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Summary

A traveler has stopped with his horse in a forest outside a village during winter time. The forest is owned by someone in the village, yet there is no house nearby. The traveler looks at the beautiful winter scenery of the forest with falling snowflakes and a frozen lake and imagines his horse must be confused by their stop there. Eventually, the speaker realizes that he has to continue his journey and leave the woods behind, as he has promises to keep.

Composition

When analyzing poems like “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, two important analytical features are the outer composition (stanzas, verses, graphical expression) and inner composition (beginning, subdivision, course). Looking at these aspects can help you gain an overall idea regarding the structure of the poem and can get you started on a deeper analysis.

Outer composition

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is composed of four quatrains (four verses stanza) and follows both rhyme and rhythm patterns.

The rhyme’s structure is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD, also known as a chain rhyme because the end of the free ver...

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