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). ...

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"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...

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• Grade Level: High School