Hyperbole is used together with other means of the language: it is superimposed on the same syntactic constructions – syntactic parallelism. Hyperbole helps Burns to show the immensity, the boundlessness of love: the hero is ready to go “ten thousand mile” in the name of his love. The hero must hurry, because time does not wait and he may not be in time. However, the words that indicate this – “sands o’ life” – have connotations. The hero breaks up with his beloved and hopes to meet soon. A metaphor is used here that denotes the eternal, endless life of nature and the fleeting life of man. The time of a person’s life on earth is compared to an hourglass. Burns deliberately uses these means of language to give expressiveness to his poem.īurns’ character says he will love his girlfriend as long as “the he sands o’ life shall run”, which means “as long as I am alive” (12). This is a stylistic figure, which consists in the intentional repetition of the same word or speech construction in a visible section of the text. The melody of speech is also enhanced by the lexical repetition “O my Luve is like a red, red rose // O my Luve is like the melody “(2-4).

The anaphora “O my Luve’” not only expresses the admiration of the lyrical hero for his beloved, but also gives the poetic text song intonations, makes it melodic.

The word “in tune” by Burns characterizes the first love and is an epithet – a figurative artistic definition. This melody sounds sweet and pure, because this is the first, pure love of the lyrical hero, to which he treats reverently and tenderly, with reverence. Burns’ character compares love to “melodie” (an old spelling of the word “melody”), which “sweetly played in tune”(4). This means that his love is not just beautiful, it is new, fresh, and young. In other words, the love of a lyrical hero is like a flower that has just been born. Burns says that his love is like a red rose, which “newly sprung in June” (Burns, line 2). The poem begins with one of the world’s most famous metaphorical similes. The author uses comparisons, hyperbole, metaphor and anaphora to convey the all-encompassing love of the lyrical hero. The eternal theme of the poem – unfading love – is vividly and freshly embodied by the poet. Burns recorded and reworked this song, which became his author’s work about love. However, it was once a song and was sung in rural Scotland in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the phrases and ideas from this poem can be found in any other song popular in those parts at that time.

The poem “A Red, Red Rose” is considered one of the masterpieces of R.

Robert burns poetry a red red rose