Next Section Poem Text Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Stern, Eleanor. Sir Walter Scott thought that 'Ae Fond Kiss' contained the 'essence of a thousand love tales'. "Ae Fond Kiss" is among his more famous poems, and is popular as a song as well as in its written form. On 27th December, Burns sent her 'Ae Fond Kiss' from Dumfries, a song so genuine in its resigned passion that it makes the drawing-room songs of 'sensibility' he had previously written for her seem artificial and insignificant. Burns is also known as one of Scotland's most iconic writers, and in many poems-including this one-he opts to use a blend of standard English and Scots-influenced dialect. Robert Burns, sometimes called a proto-Romantic poet, here takes on his subject matter through a typically Romantic lens, focusing on intense feeling and the speaker's subjectivity. Throughout, the speaker explores not only his feelings of love and sadness, but also the uncomfortable fact that his love is precisely what has enabled his sadness, rendering the two states of being inseparable. The poem is composed of three stanzas of eight lines each, following an AABBCCDD rhyme scheme. Tonally dramatic and mournful, the poem is thought to be autobiographical: it was written by Burns to a mistress prior to her 1971 departure from Scotland to Jamaica. It was first published in the fourth volume of the series Scots Musical Museum, published by James Johnson, in 1792. " Ae Fond Kiss" is a lyric poem written by Robert Burns in which a speaker addresses his lover on the occasion of their permanent parting.
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