Please list all the poetic devices and where in poem they are used The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost?

Here are examples of the poetic devices present in "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and where you can find them in the poem:

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)

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