Analysis of The road not owned



Two roads lie in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Scheme ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GXGGX
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11100101 010111101 011100111 011111111 11110010 110101111 010010101 0111100101 11110101 111100101 011101001 01111101 1110110101 110111111 1101111011 111101101 1100101 110100101 11011101 011110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 726
Words 159
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Written on August 31, 2022

Submitted by lily.mathews0902 on August 31, 2022

Modified on March 08, 2023

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