A horse.
One can only speculate. But my guess is that it's a combination of fulfilling the poetic form (number of lines, rhyming scheme) and expressing (through repetition) the tedium of those pre-bedtime miles. - aster isk
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 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.
An "end rhyme" is any rhyme at the end of a line rather than in the middle of the line.Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening" is a well known end-rhymed poem:Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf 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.Here is another example:It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delata dayI was choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hayAnd at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eatAnd Mama hollered out the back door, "Ya'll remember to wipe your feet!
Words from the poem, Cavalry Crossing a Ford, that appeal to the sense of sight are serpentine, slivery, brown-faced, scarlet, blue, snowy white, and flutter.
In Act 1 Scene 5 (when they meet briefly for the first time) Romeo describes Juliet as teaching the torches to burn bright, 'as a rich jewel', "Beauty too rich for use', as a 'snowy dove trooping with crows' and a 'Holy shrine'. The exact words he uses are "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear--beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows."
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was created in 1923.
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Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
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The speaker is probably the person on the horse.
The narrator in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" rides on a horse-drawn sleigh for transportation as he stops to admire the beauty of the snowy woods.
The possessive interrogative pronoun whose(whose woods) is not repeated.The words 'stopping by the woods on a snowy evening' is not a sentence, it is not a complete thought.
In the first stanza of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, the speaker refers to the owner of the woods as he watches the snowfall. The speaker acknowledges the owner's absence by stating, "He will not see me stopping here."
I've always thought of it as New England.
The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Fire and Ice
The horse shook his harness bells as a way of signaling to the speaker that it was time to move on from stopping by the woods in a snowy evening.
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