STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY
EVENING
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is one of Robert Frost’s
finest poems. It was written in 1922 and was published in 1923 in his
volume “New Hampshire”. Robert Frost won Pulitzer Prize and vast
recognition as an important American Writer for this collection. He
wrote this poem while living in the village of Franconia in New
Hampshire.
It seems that he was inspired to write the poem Stopping by Wood on
a Snowy Evening by watching the woods near the village and the
village mentioned in the poem is probably Franconia. Frost claimed
that he wrote this poem in a single sitting one night, though it was a
very tough task to do so.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: Stanza Wise
Before 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,
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening consists of four stanzas
of four lines each. In each stanza the first, second and fourth lines
rhyme but the third line does not. The third line rather determines
the rhyme of the next stanza. For instance, in the first stanza
‘know’, ‘though’ and ‘snow’ rhyme, but ‘here’ rhymes with
‘queer’, ‘near’ and ‘year’ in the next stanza. As an exception, in
the last stanza, all four lines are rhyming though. So the rhyme
scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD and it is written in
Iambic tetrameter, having four stressed syllables in each line.
These are all about the poetic elements used in the poem.
Actually the poem looks very simple in its use of language and
also in the subject matter. But what strikes us most is the use of a
special form and rhyme scheme to express the theme so fluently.
EVENING
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is one of Robert Frost’s
finest poems. It was written in 1922 and was published in 1923 in his
volume “New Hampshire”. Robert Frost won Pulitzer Prize and vast
recognition as an important American Writer for this collection. He
wrote this poem while living in the village of Franconia in New
Hampshire.
It seems that he was inspired to write the poem Stopping by Wood on
a Snowy Evening by watching the woods near the village and the
village mentioned in the poem is probably Franconia. Frost claimed
that he wrote this poem in a single sitting one night, though it was a
very tough task to do so.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: Stanza Wise
Before 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,
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening consists of four stanzas
of four lines each. In each stanza the first, second and fourth lines
rhyme but the third line does not. The third line rather determines
the rhyme of the next stanza. For instance, in the first stanza
‘know’, ‘though’ and ‘snow’ rhyme, but ‘here’ rhymes with
‘queer’, ‘near’ and ‘year’ in the next stanza. As an exception, in
the last stanza, all four lines are rhyming though. So the rhyme
scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD and it is written in
Iambic tetrameter, having four stressed syllables in each line.
These are all about the poetic elements used in the poem.
Actually the poem looks very simple in its use of language and
also in the subject matter. But what strikes us most is the use of a
special form and rhyme scheme to express the theme so fluently.
