1. Alliteration (repetition of consonant sounds)
- "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" (L1)
- "I took the one less traveled by" (L3)
2. Metaphor/Personification (human characteristics associated to inanimate objects)
- "...yellow wood..." (L1)
- "...they want wear" (L4)
3. Enjambment (run-on lines breaking sentences across lines)
- "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler" (L1-3)
4. Assonance (repetition of vowel sounds)
- "I shall be telling this with a sigh" (L8)
- "Somewhere ages and ages hence:" (L9)
5. Consonance (repetition of consonant sound at the end of words)
- "sigh...lie" (L8,10)
6. Imagery (use of figurative language creating vivid images)
- "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" (L1)
- "Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is in the village, though;" (L5-6)
7. Parallelism (repetition of sentence structure)
- "Two roads diverged 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;" (L1-5)