When it comes to his passion for his beloved, its duration is immeasurable. This repetition, this anaphora, emphasizes the speaker’s sentiment. The phrase “Till ‘a the seas gang dry” appears twice in the poem, once in Line 8 and once in Line 9. The song is also referred to by the title ' (Oh) My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose ' and is often published as a poem. If the speaker will love his “dear” (Line 7) until all the seas dry up, then he will be loving her forever. ' A Red, Red Rose ' is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. Currents will always move water from one ocean to another. Barring catastrophe, there will always be weather patterns to create rain to refill the seas. When the speaker claims he will love his “bonnie lass” (Line 5) until the oceans go dry, he is expressing an impossibility. Burns compares his love with a springtime blooming rose and then with a sweet melody. 'A Red, Red Rose' begins with a quatrain containing two similes. This symbolizes the inexhaustible devotion and passion the speaker feels for his beloved. One of the most famous songs that Robert Burns wrote for this project and first published in 1794 was 'A Red, Red Rose.' Burns wrote it as a traditional ballad, four verses of four lines each. Their depths are unexplored and unknowable. The seas represent vastness and endlessness. When the speaker professes his love for his beloved, he hyperbolically states that he will love her “ill a’ the seas gang dry” (Line 8). Since the significance of the rose and music are addressed in the “Poem Analysis” of this guide, this section expounds on some of the other symbolism in Burns’s poem.
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