My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose

My Love is Like a Red Red Rose by Robert Burns

My love is like a red red rose (7)
That’s newly sprung in June; (6)
My love is like the melodie (8)
That’s sweetly play’d in tune. (6)

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, (8)
So deep in love am I; (6)
#And I will love thee still, my dear, (8)
#Till a’ the seas gang dry. (6)
#Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, (9)
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: (7)
#And I will love thee still, my dear, (9)
While the sands o’ life shall run. (7)
#And fare thee weel, my only love (8)
#And fare thee weel, a while! (6)
And I will come again, my love, (8)
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile. (7) rhyme alliteration assonance consonance rhythm #refrain
(meter)

-No onomatopoeia

SOUND PATTERN

1.Type of the poem- Lyrical poetry (song) It is not a free verse
2.A regular pattern (meter)- Stanza 1: 6-8 Stanza 2: 6-9 Stanza 2: 6-8
3.Rhyme (repetition of consonants ad vowel sound between lines) Stanza 1: last word (rose,june,melodie,tune) Stanza 2: last word (dear,sun,dear,run) Stanza 3: last word (love,while,love,mile)
4.No onomatopoeia (words that eco their sounds)
5.Alliteration (repeating letters of consonant (1st syllable)) Stanza 1: first line (l,l,r,r) third line (l,l) Stanza 2: forth line (t,t) Stanza 3: first line (t,t) second line (th,th) forth line (s,s) Stanza 4: forth line (th,t,th)
6.Assonance (repetitions of vowel sounds in a line) Stanza 1: first line (o,o) second line (u,u) third line (o,o) forth line (e,e) Stanza 2: first line (o,o,o) second line (o,o) third line (i,i) forth line (a,a,a) Stanza 3 : first line (a,a,a,a) third line (i,i,i) forth line (i,i) Stanza 4: first line (e,e,o,o) second line (e,e) third line (i,i,i) forth line (i,i)
7.Consonance (repetitions of consonant sound (final syllable) in a line) Stanza 2: third line (l,l) Stanza 3: first line (y,y) third line (l,l)
Stanza 4: first line (y,y)