Stopping by Woods on a snowing Evening“

Considering the title it creates in the reader imagination the idea that the text speaks about a vision of a snowy wood at the first blind.

Considering the layout the text is divided in four stanzas made up of 4 lines, so they are quatrain. The rhyme scheme is: AABA, BBCB, CCDC, DDED.

In terms of rhythmic scheme and form the poem is complex.

This text is a lyrical poetry because the speaking voice speaks about something which is personal, this is underline by the personal pronoun “I” (first, fourth stanza) and by the possessive adjective “My” in the second stanza.

In the first stanza the speaking voice is alone in the middle of the woods, but in the woods lives someone else which maybe is not a sensible person.

In the second stanza he speaks about his little horse which seems afraid of the dark night. Indeed the woods represent something which is not good, something like madness, something from which is better stay away.

The third stanza tells about the silence of the woods, the only two noises are created by the wind and snowflakes. This created in the reader imagination the idea of a landscape bleak and terrifying.

In the last quatrain the poetry end with the speaking voice seems to be talking to himself: he wants to return home.

In the poetry there are some alliteration of the sound “h”: his house (line 2), he gives his harness (line 9); of the sound “w”: watch his woods with (line 4).

There is also a metaphor in the line 9-10 :”He gives his harness bells a shake, 

To ask if there is some mistake.”

The message the poet wants to convey is that sometimes will be beautiful take a break in another place but the duty bring you back home.