Friday, May 18, 2012

Analyze the rhyme scheme and meter in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

The rhyme scheme is the first, second and fourth lines
rhyming within each set of four lines in the poem.  The third line of the each section
ends with a word that rhymes with the first, second and fourth lines of the next
section.  The exception to this is the last set of four lines, which all
rhyme.


The meter of the poem is four sets of two syllables
in each line, the first unaccented and the second given more emphasis.  The stress
pattern is called iambic meter; four repetitions of that meter is called tetrameter. 
Hence, the technical description of the poem's meter would be iambic
tetrameter.

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