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,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.

By Robert Frost

I chose this poem because when I first heard it in the book "The Outsiders" I instantly fell in love with it. It has so much meaning that's described in the book (The Outsiders) It means that you're gold when you're a child and you see things differently. Since I grew up watching the movie, I've grown to love the poem mainly because it's in my favorite movie, but also because it has a lot of good meaning behind it and it's very well written.

Rhyme (ex. gold, hold)
Rhyme scheme (ex. Flower, hour)
Rhythm (ex. Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower)