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A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem A Red, Red Rose 2011 级英教（3）班 柳婷婷 103012011131 Abstract: In the narrow sense, the stylistic is the study of literature style. This paper will focus on the style of poetry and analyse the stylistic characteristics of the poem titled A Red, Red Rose by Rbert Buns. This poem wil be analysed in three aspects: phonological marker, syntactic markers, Graphological Markers, lexical markers. Key words: stylistics; poetry; phonological marker; syntactic markers; graphological Markers ; lexical markers A Red, Red Rose A Red, Red Rose 1 O my luve’s like a red, red rose, Thats newly sprung in June； O my luve’s like the melodie Thats sweetly play’d in tune. 2 As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I； And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a the seas gang dry. 3 Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi the sun； And I will luve thee still , my dear, While the sands o life shall run. 4 And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my luve, Thoit wre ten thousand mile！ A Red, Red Rose is a poem written by Robert Burns, one of the greatest romanticist poet in the late 18th century, based on a traditional Scottish song. It has been popular since its appearance and enjoys enduring love and praise from all over the world. Numberous are Burns songs of love and frienship, which describes poet’s own emotion with such vividness and simplicity that thay appeal directly to the reader ’s heart. These songs , meanwhile, carry with them a new spirite of Romanticism, which would prevail as the main trend of English literature in the 19th century. ① On the Phonological Markers The most outstanding feature of the poem is the rhythm. The poem is in the metrical form of balled stanza. The sound pattern is very jolly with the rheme ‘June’ and ‘tune’, ‘ I’ and ‘ dry’, ‘sun’ and ‘run’,’while’ and ‘mile’. Excpt for these, the application of the alliteration, assonance,such as ‘luve’and ‘like’, ‘red’ and