This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay that begins with:
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 010101 0101010 1101110 110101 110101 111101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, so are repeated.
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- summary of Nothing Gold Can Stay;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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