What kind of poem is this? (10 points!! please?!)?
It’s called "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost and here’s how it goes:
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
I KNOW what it is I just forget and once someone tells me, I’ll remember but PLEASE help it’ll drive me crazy and ten pts to the first CORRECT answer!! (don’t put like "." or something because I’ve had that before so I extended the question. Anyway, please please help!) Thanks!!!
Um, I mean, style, like (I know it’s not, but) Hiaku, Sonnet, and Free Verse, like that
If that helps, then woo! thanks for the help!:P
Thanks for all of the answers, but if you happen to come back, I mean style, I should have put that instead of kind. Still open and waiting!!! please help!! thanks to everyone so far!!
All of your answers are right when it comes to the poem, but I still don’t have what I’m looking for, sorry! Still open! Thanks!
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I love that poem. It is the one that stands out most in my mind when I was in school.
I think the word that you are looking for is narrative.
This poem is written in iambic tetrameter.
People are right when they claim it’s iambic tetrameter.
But they’re forgetting the term for the form, which isn’t very well known, since it’s Persian and very difficult to write in English.
It’s called a rubaiyat.
I bet that’s the word you were thinking of, right?
iambic tetrameter
Rhyming one?
Observe the last words of each even line
I don’t have quite enough information to answer. What do you mean by "kind" of poem?
Are you looking for the name of the meter used?
It’s eight syllables/line. Four feet/ iambic tetrameter. The link, below, has some good stuff and other examples, to boot.
The rhyme scheme = aaba, ccdc, etc.
The typical interpretation is that this poem is a metaphor, that Frost is contemplating death, but realizes that he has "miles to go" before he "sleeps" in that way. The poet is the speaker, therefore, it’s a first-person narrative.
Hope this helps!