“Acquainted With the Night” was published in 1928 in Frost’s collection West-Running Brook. Like a sonnet, it contains 14 lines, but it follows the terza rima (ABA BCB CDC DAD AA) rhyme scheme most closely associated with Dante’s Divine Comedy. The tightly interlocking scheme conveys both hellishness and a kind of mechanistic inevitability: the speaker is compelled to walk out and back again as if by inner forces he can’t control.