"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost (60)

How many states are in “The Road Not Taken?”

Four

How many lines are in each stanza of “The Road Not Taken?”

Five

How many total lines are in “The Road Not Taken?”

Twenty

What is the rhyme scheme of “The Road Not Taken?”

ABAAB

The opening of many lines in “The Road not Taken” with “and” are what literary device>

Polysyndeton

What is the first stanza of “The Road Not Taken?”

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;”

What punctuation markings are present in “The Road Not Taken?”

Commas, semicolons, periods, exclamation marks, colons, and em dashes

What is the second stanza of “The Road Not Taken?”

“Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that passing there
Had worn them really about the same,”

What is the third stanza of “The Road Not Taken?”

“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.”

What is the fourth stanza of “The Road Not Taken?”

“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 traveled by,
And that has made all the difference”

In “The Road Not Taken” the speaker claims two roads diverged where?

In a yellow wood

What does the speaker of “The Road Not Taken” say in regard to the inability for him to take both roads?

He is sorry he cant travel both

The speaker in “The Road Not Taken” looked down a road as far as he could until the point where the road did what?

It bent in the undergrowth

How does the speaker in “The Road Not Taken” describe the second road relative to the first initially?

“Just as fair and having perhaps the better claim”

Why does the speaker in “The Road Not Taken” initially believe the second road hadthe better claim?

It is grassy and wanted some wear

The speaker in “The Road Not Taken” comes to realize what about both roads?

That both were worn really about the same and they both equally lay

What time of day does the speaker’s choice between the roads occur?

Morning

The speaker in “The Road Not Taken” describes the equal status of both roads with what description?

That both had leaves that “no step had trodden black”

The speaker in “The Road Not Taken” chose what path?

The second path

The speaker in “The Road Not Taken” believed he would return to what path when?

“Oh, I kept the first for another day!”

What realization does the speaker in “The Road Not Taken” make about the likelihood of him walking the first path?

He doubted if he would ever come back to that fork to take that first path.

What line describes the part of “The Road Not Taken” when the speaker begins to realize he may never return to that fork?

“Yet knowing how way leads on to way,”

What does the line “Yet knowing how way leads on to way,” mean?

That the road he is currently taking will likely lead to more forks and turns in the road

The speaker in “The Road Not Taken” realizes that they will tell the story with what?

A sigh

The speaker will tell the story of “The Road Not Taken” when and where?

“Somewhere ages and ages hence:”

What is the story that the speaker in “The Road Not Taken” decides they will tell somewhere at some point?

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

What is the opening line of “The Road Not Taken?”

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.”

What is the final line of “The Road Not Taken?”

“And that has made all the difference”

Every line begins with a letter that is what?

Capitalized