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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In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost has somewhere he needs to be (mentioned in the last line) but at the same time he is tempted to stop and watch the snow fall on the woods (which he really doesn't have time for).
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!
Colin Dexter wrote The Way Through the Woods.
To find a plot summary and other information about Into the Woods, use the link below.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was created in 1923.
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A 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.
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
A-A-B-A if I remember right
The speaker is probably the person on the horse.
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.