The road beyond fell away on every side. It's snowing, the boy said. He looked at the sky. A single gray flake sifting down. He caught it in his hand and watched it expire there like the last host of christendom. He thought if he lived long enough the world at last would be lost.
In “The Road Not Taken,” Frost uses both to lend the poem’s language a sense of rhetorical balance and poise. For a good example that showcases the simultaneous use of assonance and consonance, examine the third stanza (lines 11–15). First, consider the O sounds that repeat across the stanza: In leaves no step had trodden black.
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