1. “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
By Robert Frost

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3. Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.

5. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.

7. The leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,

9. So dawn goes down to day.

12. Nothing gold can stay.

15. Poetic Devices Used in the Poem
Alliteration = the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of
words. It is used for emphasis and to give a musical sound.
Allusion = is a reference to a famous person, event, or work of literature.

16. Poetic Devices Continued
Personification = the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

17. Poetic Devices Continued
Rhyme Scheme = the pattern of end rhyme in a poem. It is charted by assigning a letter of the alphabet, beginning with the
letter a, to each line Lines that rhyme are given the same
letter.

18. Can You Identify? In “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, can you find
Alliteration
Allusion
Personification
Rhyme Scheme
Number your paper write both the poetic device’s heading and write your example.