• Tam o' Shanter is a wonderful, epic poem in which Burns paints a vivid picture of the drinking classes in the old Scotch town of Ayr in the late 18th century.
  • One of these later poems is “Tam oShanter” which, at 228 lines, is one of the longest poems Burns ever wrote.
    • This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter
    • As he frae Ayr ae night did canter
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  • "Tam o' Shanter" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries.
  • This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter: (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonie lasses.)
  • Tam OShanter Lyrics. When chapmen billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors meet As market days are wearing late, An' folk begin to tak the...
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  • Poem Tam O Shanter by Robert Burns : When chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are we.
  • Here you will find the Long Poem Tam O'Shanter of poet Robert Burns. Tam O'Shanter.
  • Robert Burns’s poemTam oShanter’ follows the titular hero, an Ayrshire farmer fond of drink and spending time with his mates...