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This poem by Robert Frost may not be as well revered as ‘The Road Not Taken’ or ‘Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening’,but that does not mean this poem is less in any way. His works intertwined both universally faced human problems and dilemmas with the natural world. The setting of the poem “Acquainted with the Night” is set in a raining city at night, a place where the human made light is difficult to escape. Man and the natural world seems to be a frequent theme throughout Frosts pieces. Lines such as “I have outwalked the furthest city light”(Line 3), portrays how the narrator has experienced freedom from the views of society by escaping to the true natural world and wishes to share that with the reader. The title appears within the poem on both the first and last line showing repetition and refers to the narrator that they are no stranger to the night while at the same time they are not friends but rather familiar with it. Patterns can be seen structurally within the first stanza and scattered throughout the rest of the work see in the repetition of the beginning “I have...” which is defined as anaphora, each of these are followed by a passed tense action, such as ‘been, walked, outwalked, looked, passed, dropped, and stood’. Usually …show more content…

Authors choose this method to create a natural rhythm when the poem is being read. Terza Rima is also present within this poem and is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D except ends with D-D rather than D-E-D. An author uses this to create the effect of two steps forward and one step back. This originally created in the Italian language and makes this method difficult for writers that articulate English works. Frost’s poem is the most well know English piece which properly portrays this poetic

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