"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Rhyme scheme

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Literary tools,

Attitude of the speaker,

Shifts,

Theme

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, subside: to lessen; to abate; to sink to a lower level

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

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What literary tools does Frost use to make his point? (symbolism, metaphor, allusion)

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