Stanza 1 most conveys a tone of indecision.
Robert Frost opens his poem, in stanza 1, describing how, seeing "two roads diverged in a yellow wood," he was sorry he "could not travel both and be one traveler." So he stood for a long time and looked down the one that was the more well-traveled path before deciding to take the less-traveled road. At the end of the poem (in stanza 4), he concluded" "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. "
Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken," was the first poem in his 1916 collection of poetry entitled, Mountain Interval. In 1960, Frost was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal (our nation's highest civilian honor) for his contributions in poetry.