Question

Which type of sound device appears in the excerpt from “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost? 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;

Answer 1

ASSONANCE.

Consists in the repetition of vowel sounds without repetition of consonants.

The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, as in the phrase:

"And looked down one as far as I could".

Looked rhymes with Could in the same line of the verse, although they dont have the same consonants.

Assonance can give musicality to the poem.

Answer 2

Some poetic devices or sound devices in "The Road Not Taken" are the assonance in the first line, emphasizing the "o" sound in "roads" and "yellow," the alliteration in the third line of the second stanza with "wanted wear,". Also within this same line, the personification in the road "it was grassy and wanted wear." The poem, is a metaphor for the different directions one can take in their life.