A Red, Red Rose A Red, Red Rose is a poem written by Robert Burns, during 1796, the year of his death. The poem consists of four stanzas; each one four lines long. The first stanza has an exact rhyme at the end of the second and fourth lines -- June and tune. The repetition of "O, my luve" in the first stanza conjures up the idea that his love is different from other men. His …showed first 75 words of 714 total…

…showed last 75 words of 714 total…during the first stanza. In the following three stanzas, he addresses his words of devotion directly to her. His dramatic monologue clearly states his love of this woman and everything about her. Burn's use of nature in his descriptions of this woman and his narrator's adoration for her bring vivid scenes or ideas to mind. His use of imagery is not always exactly what he wants us to observe, but rather the feeling it derives.