My Pretty Rose Tree" is a simply constructed poem of two heroic quatrains. The first stanza describes the speaker's temptation in being offered another flower, as well as his protestation that he has his own Rose Tree at home and so does not need another. The second stanza turns to the outcome of his fidelity. The Rose Tree is too jealous to see the speaker as faithful, and so offers him only thorns. The Rose Tree is personified in that it can "turn away" from the speaker and feel jealousy, pointing clearly to the use of the Rose Tree and the flower of the first stanza as metaphors respectively for the speaker's true love or wife and for a temptress placed in his path.