- 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.
- This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter
- As he frae Ayr ae night did canter
- In 1955 the English composer Malcolm Arnold wrote a lively overture entitled Tam o’ Shanter that includes all the elements of the poem such as Tam getting...
- The opening scene of the poem – Tam drinks with his shoemaker friend, souter Johnnie, and flirts with the pub landlady while the landlord laughs at Johnnie's tales.
- Burns' poem is written in iambic tetrameters, that is four metrical iambs or feet per line, each foot comprising one unstressed and one stressed syllable.
- 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 O’Shanter – A Poem by Robert Burns. WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neebors, neebors meet; As market-days are wearing late, An folk...
- Perhaps one of his most famous poems is the comically macabre epic tale ‘Tam O’ Shanter’.
- Here is the epic Burns poem Tam O’ Shanter. It is one of his longer poems and tells the tale of the drunkard Tam and his journey home one night where he sees...
- 1] This poem is based on a story current in Burns's neighbourhood with regard to the deserted and ruinous Alloway Kirk, which stood on the banks of the Doon...
