Heavy use of monosyllabic lexis - ‘whose’, ‘woods’, ‘think’ - simplistic: fits the idea that death is natural, and simple therefore, simple language. -The poem feels comfortable about the rhyme scheme - life and death is part of what we have to face. prospective death is something that is real, therefore, it is not so dramatic, it is realistic, this is contemplation of life and death. juxtapose to the reaction frost wants us to have about death in out out.