Song (Ae fons kiss) - Robert Burns

Form and structure
1. Uses Rhyming couplets throughout the poem
2. Poem goes full circel
  1. Starts of grieving and ends up grieving
3. Lyric poem
4. follows a trochaic tetrameter
5. Assonance throughout the poem
Language Analysis, Techniques and Imagery
1. ' Ae fond kiss, and then we sever/Ae farewell, and then,forever!
  1. forever shows the finality of the situation and the exclamation mark emphasises it
2. Warring sighs and groans i'll wage thee
  1. onomatapoeia signify an inner battle
  2. Sighs and groans are the price he has to pay for their parting
3. 'The star of hope she leaves him'
  1. Love is shown as a guiding light- this is also a refernce to Sonnet 116 because love is shown in a similar way
4. 'Dark Depsair around benights me'
  1. Alliteration brings to attention the pitiable state that the speaker is in after the depature of his beloved
5. Ironic he calls her 'My' because she was never his
6. No sense of lust it is admiration
Types of love
1. Abandoned love
2. unrequited love
3. Loss of love
Typicality of love poems
1. Love was shown has a hopeful and powerful force in a lot of poems at the time
2. typical features of a romantic poem
reference
1. Sonnet 116 - Both show love as a guiding light

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	Created by Aniqa Khatri over 10 years ago