A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
I.
O, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
II.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
‘Till a’ the seas gang dry.
III.
‘Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
IV.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel a-while!
And I will come again, my luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.
Which line is an example of a simile?
“O, my luve’s like a red, red rose”
CORRECT!!
“And I will come again, my luve”
“And the rocks melt wi’ the sun”
Another example of a simile is:
“O, my luve’s like the melodie”
CORRECT!!
“I will luve thee still, my dear”
“So deep in luve am I”
In the third stanza, lines 2 and 4 are examples of
rhyme
CORRECT!!
simile
repetition
In the fourth stanza, the beginning of lines 1 and 2 are an example of:
repetition
CORRECT!!
simile
hyperbole
Poem source site www.public-domain-poetry.com
Adapted from a Georgia Virtual Learning assignment