Question

Highlight the words that help you find the tone of this stanza.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
—“The Road Not Taken,”
Robert Frost

Which of these statements best describes the tone of this stanza?

The speaker is reflective and wistful about the path he could have taken.
The speaker is confident that he will walk both paths someday.
The speaker is mad at himself for not choosing the other path.
The speaker yearns for the other path and wishes he had taken it instead.

Answer 1

Reflective

Step-by-step explanation:

I doubted I should ever come back, sounds that there isnt a thought to go back.