Which statement about Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is true?

• A. It is a sonnet
• B. It uses four stanzas of four lines with iambic tetrameter
• C. It uses blank verse with ten-syllable lines
• D. It is a free-verse poem with irregular lines

Answer: (B)

Focus on the poem’s form and rhythm. This piece is organized as four stanzas, each a four-line unit, and every line follows an iambic meter with four feet—iambic tetrameter. That means the line pattern has eight syllables with a da-DUM rhythm repeating four times, giving a steady, lilting cadence that mirrors the quiet, contemplative scene Frost paints. It isn’t a sonnet (which would be 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter), nor blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter with ten syllables per line), nor free verse (no regular meter). The consistent four-line stanzas and regular eight-syllable lines are what make this description of the poem the best fit.