I need an analysis of the poem, "A Red, Red, Rose."

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is a ballad written in four quatrains (four
stanzas composed of four lines each). The first and
third lines of each
stanza are written in iambic tetrameter (tetra - four stressed syllables).

These lines stray a bit from strict iambic prosody, but for the most part the entire
poem sticks
to the iamb which is the pattern of an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable. The
second and fourth lines follow iambic
trimeter which uses three stressed syllables. 

O my

Luve's like a red,
red
rose,

That's
newly
sprung in
June; 

The stressed syllables are: O, Luve's, red, rose, / new-, sprung,

June. The musical quality of rhythm is important in this poem because it is about time
as much
as it is about love. 

In the first stanza, the
speaker usesto compare his
love to a "red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in
June." The love he has is fresh,
new, and bursting with life. "Red" is
repeated to underscore the idea that his love is
at its brightest. Given that
his love is at its most powerful, being "newly sprung in
June," the
indication is that this is temporary. Just as the rose's color will fade, his

love is subject to the same decay. 

It is also harmonious and musical
like a
song "sweetly played in tune." One could say that a song is timeless
but the song
itself, having a beginning and end in time, is also
temporary. 

The speaker,
recognizing that his love might
fade, reassures his beloved saying he will love her "Till
a' the seas gang
dry." Seemingly, this will be a long time, perhaps until the end of the

world. But he doesn't say "forever." So, there may be some indication that even a
love
as powerful as this has, like the rose and the song, a limit in
time. 

Again,
the speaker reassures his beloved that he
will love her "While the sands o' life shall
run." This could mean he will
love her for all time or until the end of her or his life.
What seemed like a
very simple poem about love becomes a philosophical inquiry on time and the

question of how love exists in time. Does time limit love? 

In the
last
stanza, the speaker announces that he will be away from his beloved for
"a while"
indicating that he will return, but we have no idea how long "a
while" really is.
However, he says he will return even if he must travel ten
thousand miles. 

One could say that the speaker is simply
making a pledge that although his love brief
(like a newly sprung rose), it
is also long-lasting. In other words, maybe it (love) only seems
brief
because it is experienced in time. Perhaps the speaker is trying to conceive of how
to
extract this brief moment of vibrant love from time itself, so that it
would not be limited by
the confines of time. In a modern context, this could
be interpreted as wishing to extend the
initial "falling in love" feeling
longer than the limited time it tends to
have.