The poem has an irregular but strong rhyming scheme to create a rhythm. This rhythm affects the way that you read the poem. You read it with a pause at the end of each line, and read the first line quicker than the second in each couplet. I think that the poet has given the poem a good rhythm and has used a good range of adjectives to create a picture in the readers mind and to make the poem interesting.
The way through the woods is a poem about a road that used to go through the woods.
The poem is arranged differently to the listeners. This poem has two stanzas instead of one. This poem doesn’t have a rhyme scheme but uses other sorts of rhymes including eye rhyme “brood… woods”, it also uses internal rhyme “rain…again”, and this internal rhyme occurs on line three and seven of each verse. The way you read this poem is similar to the way you read the listeners, with the pause at the end or each line and the first line of the couplet being read faster then the second.
Stanza one is describing the road through the woods, when it was open. Stanza two is a bit more mysterious and brings in the idea of ghost or supernatural beings.. Like the listeners the way through the woods has a very strong sense of mystery. It creates this mystery by not telling us why or how the road through the woods was closed, even thought the fact that it is closed is repeated through the poem many times. Through lines nineteen to twenty one the idea of ghosts appears because there are people going through the woods on a horse, but the road is closed “you will hear the beat of a horses feet”. This brings up the possibility that maybe there was an accident on the road and that was why it was closed. The road is well described by Rudyard Kipling so the reader can get a good picture in there head.
Atmosphere and mystery are created using the senses. The poets create detailed images in your head and sounds as well, using onomatopoeia and the contrast between sound and silence “you can here the beat of the horses feet”.
Both poems create such an intense image in your mind when your reading them that they get you excited about the poem. The mystery created just top’s of the good poem. The reason that these poems are so well written and like very short stories is because when they were written people had no forms of moving visual entertainment as TV and cinema were not around. The readers had to use their imagination which poets took advantage of.
