Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)
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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is one of Robert Frost's most famous poems. Written in 1923, this poem was published in The Yale Review in October of that year. Some say the poem helped Frost to win a Pulitzer Prize. Only eight lines long, this poem is still considered one of Frost's best. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is also featured in the book (and movie) The Outsiders, which was written by S.E. Hinton.
[edit] Nothing Gold Can Stay.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Stylistic devices:
End Rhymes:
gold, hold(1-2)
flower, hour(3-4)
leaf, grief(5-6)
day, stay(7-8)
The rhyme scheme is thus as follows:
AABBCCDD
Furthermore, two lines contain literary alliteration:
Her hardest hue to hold. and
So dawn goes down to day.
Green is Gold
