Robert Frost Road Less Traveld

Robert Frost Road Less Traveld

Robert Frost Road Less Traveld

Robert Frost’s ‘Hyla Brook’: The Things We Love

Frost was a master writer of “tricky poems”; he claimed that “The Road Not Taken” was a tricky poem, but many of his others are just as tricky, including “Hyla Brook.”

Frost’s “Hyla Brook” consists of fifteen lines with the rime scheme, ABBACCADDEEFGF. The poem resembles a Petrarchan sonnet but instead of an octave, it has a nonave that sets up the situation, while the sestet complements it.

The Nonave: “By June our brook’s run out of song and speed.”


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    Robert Frost Road Less Traveld

    Robert Frost Road Less Traveld

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