"Acquainted with the Night" is designated as a sonnet because it is a fourteen-line poem. ... The softest tone in the poem is when he, "stood still and stopped the sound of feet." ... Shakespeare's form develops a sequence of metaphors, or ideas in each quatrain and the couplet offers a summary of these ideas. ... Frost begins the poem with an interesting relation, an "acquaintance" with the night. ... In the poem, the narrator has come face to face with death, in which night symbolizes death. ...

• Word Count: 1091
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School