"Tam o' Shanter" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in 1791, at 228 (or 224) lines it is one of Burns' longer poems, and employs a mixture of Scots and English. The poem describes the habits of Tam, a farmer who often gets drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr, and his thoughtless ways, specifically towards his wife, who is waiting at home for him, angry.
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- 11Gathering her brows like gathering storm, 12Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. 13 This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, 14As he frae Ayr ae night did canter
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