<P> "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume . Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work . In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it "my best bid for remembrance". </P> <P> Frost wrote the poem in June 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont . He had been up the entire night writing the long poem "New Hampshire" and had finally finished when he realized morning had come . He went out to view the sunrise and suddenly got the idea for "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". He wrote the new poem "about the snowy evening and the little horse as if I'd had a hallucination" in just "a few minutes without strain". </P> <P> 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 (another example is the terza rima used in Dante's Inferno .) Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA - BBCB - CCDC - DDDD . </P>

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