“Nothing Gold Can Stay”, Exercises of Poetry

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by Robert Frost American poet Written in 1923

Rhyme Scheme

Nature’s first green is gold. A Her hardest hue to hold. A Her early leaf’s a flower; B But only so an hour. B Then leaf subsides to leaf. C So Eden sank to grief, C So dawn goes down today. D Nothing gold can stay. D

Line 3 & 4 Analysis

Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Analysis The leaf becomes a blossom, but only for a short period of time. Again, we can compare this to the middle of life, it lasts for only a short amount of time.

Line 5 & 6

Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, Analysis The leaves will overlap each other as they fall to the ground.  Subsides- to sink of fall to the bottom, to become quiet or less Biblical reference to the Garden of Eden – happiness became sadness, darkness and death.  We compare the leaf subsiding to growing old and