Diction: Language/Word choice

Double meanings:

“The Road Not Taken,” 1011 (Hence)

“The Man He Killed”, 890 (Quaint)

“Cory,” 782 (Imperially slim; Quietly arrayed)

Impact re: theme:

“Those Winter Sundays,” 1015: cold; cracked; breaking; angers; indifferently; austere; lonely

*Can be to rhyme, fit the meter, or use alliteration

Syntax: Word order; how the words are arranged on the page and within the lines

Can visually enhance the poem:

“Constantly Risking Absurdity,” 757

Can emphasize certain parts of a poem:

“Man He Killed,” 890: Although; Dashes (Stz. 3/4)

Can be to rhyme or fit meter:

“The Road Not Taken,” 1011:

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood (2–3)