`A Red, Red, Rose` - Robert Burns

7 December 2008

Poetry Analysis of Robert Burns ' A Red , Red Rose

The poem A Red , Red Rose is one of the most popular love poems that Robert Burns has written . Its content , form and style are harmoniously interwoven to come up with a beautiful literary piece . Thus , this essay will analyze the content , form , and style of this poem

The poem is an expression of the speaker 's love for his sweetheart . The first stanza begins with praise for the beauty of his loved-one . She is compared to a beautiful red

rose which has just blossomed and to a beautiful music which is very sweet to the ears . She is indeed very beautiful . The second and third stanzas express his deep and endless love for his loved-one . His love will last even if the seas will run dry or if the rocks will melt with the heat of the sun . The fourth and last stanza states that he has to say goodbye for a short time but he promises to come back even though it means traveling a great distance

The form of the poem is equally beautiful as its content . It is a love lyric of four stanzas consisting of quatrains or four lines . Each stanza has alternating iambic tetrameter in the first and third lines , and iambic trimester in its second and fourth lines . The rhyme scheme is a b , c , b in the first stanza , d , e , f , e in the second stanza , f , g , f...