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.
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A horse.
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!
you can only walk "half way" into the woods. Once you are more than half way you are no longer walking into the woods but rather out of the wooks. ;-)
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was created in 1923.
A horse.
SIMILE
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.
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
The speaker is probably the person on the horse.
A-A-B-A if I remember right
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 feel strange to stop the poet because there was no grass to graze