The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

By Robert Frost

Book overview

The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval. The poem may be the most widely recognized of all poems.

The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem consisting of four stanzas of 5 lines each in iambic tetrameter (though it is hypermetric by one beat – there are nine syllables per line instead of the strict eight required for tetrameter) and is one of Frost's most popular works. Besides being among the best known poems, some claim that it is one of the most misunderstood.

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