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    figure of speech-- Nothing gold can stay

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    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.
    ~Robert Frost



    what is the figure of speech in this poem ?

    Thank you

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    There are several metaphors in that little poem. Actually almost every line is a metaphor.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

    "Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena

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    Aww, that's the poem from The Outsiders, isn't it ?
    God, how I loved that book !

    Oh, and two anaphors (I hope that's the English word for it - corrections are welcome...): the first one in the lines 2 and 3 (Her - Her), the second one in the lines 6 and 7 (So - So)
    "Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"
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