Compare 'A Red, Red, Rose' to 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving. How do they convey feelings of desire and loss? Both a 'Red, Red, Rose' and so we'll go no more a-roving' are wrote in ballad form. They are romantic poems about desire, loss and regret. 'So we'll go no more a-roving' (L1) is to be spoken with regret in a melancholic tone. Byron knows and accepts that he can no longer go out …
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…has the ability to go out late into the night but both have the desire to repeat and experience what they once had though neither can go back to experience the feelings again. Both poets feel intense emotions of desire for the feelings/emotions that they have lost. Byron shrugs off his desires with 'So' but Burn's tells his lady and himself that he will be back in order to disguise his emotions and desires.