Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Lee Frost
WrittenJune 1922
First published inNew Hampshire
Meteriambic tetrameter
Rhyme schemeAABA BBCB CCDC DDDD
Publication date1923
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of 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.[1]

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it "my best bid for remembrance".[2]

  1. ^ "Robert Frost: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on November 6, 2020. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Tuten, Nancy Lewis; Zubizarreta, John (2001). The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing. p. 347. ISBN 0-313-29464-X. Archived from the original on February 15, 2024. Retrieved December 9, 2011.