"Nothing Gold Can Stay" Poem Analysis

Front

Nature's first green

Back

spring

Front

Nature's first green is gold

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spring is precious

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Hue

Back

Color

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Eden

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paradise

Front

"Her early leaf's a flower"

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Metaphor

Front

Theme of the poem

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Perfection and youth don't last forever

Front

"But only so an hour" means

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some change happens quickly

Front

"Nature's first green is gold"

Back

metaphor

Front

Couplet

Back

A pair of rhyming lines

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Book containing the poem

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