The Road Not Taken

                                 - Robert Frost 

Introduction of the poem 

It was first published in 1915 in the  'Atlantic' and later published as the first poem of the collection in 1916, "Mountain interval ". Robert Frost wrote this poem, to poke fun at his friend at "Edward Thomas".

Text

 Two roads diverged in yellow wood.  
 And sorry I could not travel both 
And be one traveller, long I stood
 And looked down one as far as I could
 To where it bent in the undergrowth.
 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 the passing there
 Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
 Oh, I kept the first for another day!
 At knowing how way leads on to way,
 I doubted if I should ever come back.
 I shall be telling this with the sign 
Somewhere ages and hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by 
And that has made all differences.


The Road Not Taken poetic device 

Rhyme Scheme- abacb