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. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it "my best bid for remembrance" The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward Fitzgerald. Each verse (save the last) follows an a-a-b-a rhyming scheme, with the following verse's a's rhyming with that verse's b, which is a chain rhyme. Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD Iambic tetrameter: consisting of four iambic feet (unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) Rubaiyat stanza: the word rubiyt ("Rub" means quatrain, derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains, four lines of verse per stanza. This form appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and China; and, continues into the 21st century. The verse form AABA as used in English verse is known as the Rubaiyat Quatrain due to its use by Edward FitzGerald in his famous 1859 translation, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Chain rhyme: is the linking together of stanzas by carrying a rhyme over from one stanza to the next. Chain rhyme is almost exclusively devoted to the poetic form of the Rubaiyat. Source: Tuten, Nancy Lewis; John Zubizarreta (2001). The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing.