Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost

Question

7. What sound devices make the rhythm more pronounced in line 7? And why is the meter so increasingly obvious over lines 5,6, and 7?

Asked by Sindi G #418473 on 2/12/2015 8:21 PM

Last updated by Aslan on 2/12/2015 10:45 PM

Answered by Aslan on 2/12/2015 10:45 PM

Lines 5 and 6: long E's in the word leaf plus assonance and interal imperfect rhyme , Eden and grief
Line 7: Dawn and down . . . imperfect rhyme.