Poetry Challenge 8: In Winter in the Woods Alone

Here’s the original poem by Robert Frost. Note ‘shadowy” – a break from the otherwise perfect meter. It’s not exactly a dactyl, because under the influence of the meter, we probably turn the ‘w’ into a vowel more or less and barely pronounce the ‘o.’ Still. “In one tree’s overthrow” – It is inappropriate to read ‘tree’ as an unstressed syllable, I believe, despite the meter. And so we have a spondee here in the middle of the line. in ONE TREE’S OV-er-THROW What figures and glimmers tangled with this… Read more Poetry Challenge 8: In Winter in the Woods Alone →