Is there any imagery or irony?

Question: Is there any imagery or irony!?

in this poem!?
-irony
-imagery

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!.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Pamila, you should do your own homework!.

It's ironic that what is most beautiful in life is often the most short-lived!. (Though I'm certain that is what your teacher is looking for, that is not really "irony")!. I think the image of Eden (where Adam and Eve lived in paradise) sinking into grief is a profound image of personification!.

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