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To a Louse

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"To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church" is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie. [1]

7 relations: Bonnet (headgear), Burns stanza, Louse, Metre (poetry), Robert Burns, Scots language, To a Mouse.

Bonnet (headgear)

A bonnet is any of a wide variety of headgear for both sexes—more often female—from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Burns stanza

The Burns stanza is a verse form named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who used it in some fifty poems.

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Louse

Louse (plural: lice) is the common name for members of the order Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless insect.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).

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To a Mouse

"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" is a Scots Language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Louse

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