We all go through decisions in life. Some are made for better or for worse. In the poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, a man goes through a decision, whether it being life changing or not. The man describes a journey made in the woods at fork in the road. This fork may be symbolic of a journey we make through life. The rhyme scheme of this poem is one that we don't come across very often. It's ABAAB. The first, third, and fourth lines rhyme and the second and fifth lines rhyme. In this poem, you seem to enter the man's mind, as he must decide whether to take the usual road or the road less traveled. In the end he makes a decision, but was it the right one?
             In the first stanza, we find the traveler in the woods during a yellow autumn at a fork in the road. He doesn't know which road to take although he wishes he could take both. Because he was alone, he had no help from a friend and stood for a long time, deciding which road to take. He tried looking down one road to see what it held, but a bend in the thicket made it hard to see what surprises the road guarded. This road looked as though it had been taken more frequently but still an untamed road.
             In the second stanza we see that the other road, perhaps, looks just as good as the first road. This road was wild and thick with foliage and it seemed to be unexplored and untouched. So the traveler considered both and saw each with their own good qualities. This made him think of them as equal, yet different.
             And so in the third stanza, he stood with time to spare, for both roads would stay where they were. He saw that even though one had been take more frequently, they both hadn't been used in a long time. He knew that if he took one of the roads, he probably wouldn't be able to come back in his life to take the other. So he knew he had to make his decision, but which one would he chose?
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