Today, along with our DIALOGUE POEM, we will try this activity to help with rhyme and meter.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

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.

Please read the short Robert Frost poem with the title "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Then read it again. Consider its thematic possibilities, and different ways that we interpret the word "gold."  What is Frost ultimately saying?

THEN, in an appreciation of Frost's style, try your own version of the poem.  Each line, aside from the title and the final line (which is the title again) should be six syllable rhyming couplets.

EXAMPLE:

NOTHING SWEET IS BAD

My chocolate cake is good

It’s happy-making food.

My frosted cupcake’s fun

When the long day is done.

So sweets go to the sweet

Deserving of a treat

So sugar makes us glad:

Nothing sweet is bad.

NOW you try!  Count your lines and choose only true rhymes.