Frost uses iambic tetrameter for his poem whereas Robinson uses iambic pentameter, but both poets keep to their chosen meter throughout their poems. ... "Richard Cory," as mentioned above, is in iambic pentameter with a more traditional rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD etc. ... The meter is iambic tetrameter. ...
Frost uses iambic tetrameter because it has a regular rhythm, and each line only has eight syllables. ... With "the old fashioned way to be new" Frost strove for the sound of sense, for the simpleness, for a tension between natural rhythm of speech, and the basic iambic meter of English verse (Kantak 161-66). ...
"The Road Not Taken" In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," the speaker stands in the woods, considering a split in the road. Both ways are similarly worn, and equally overlaid with un-trodden leaves. The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he know...
