Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.docx -...

Name: Tara Kelly Per: 1 Date: 8.24.18 ______________________
AP Lit Boot Camp: Intro to Poetry Analysis
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening
by Robert Frost
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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.
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Notes
Iambic tetrameter(quatrains)
Consonance = W sound( Easy sounds,fricatives calm
and serenity )
Imagery-- Sight
Shift from all fricatives to a mixture w/glottles harder
sounds, slows us down, changes the mood subtly
Imagery--sight
More glottals, slower pace
Horse reminds of danger and need to move on.