Epigram at Brownhill Inn by Robert Burns
The speaker praises Brownhill's food and plentiful bacon, then asks why there is always Bacon—a joke on the host's name, supplied in the prefatory note.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Epigram, Humor · 75 words
First lines
Bacon was the name of a presumably intrusive host. The lines are said to have "afforded much amusement. "-Lang
At Brownhill we always get dainty good cheer, / And plenty of bacon each day in the year; / We've a' thing that's nice, and mostly in season, / But why always Bacon-come, tell me a reason?
Genres
- Epigram — Four rhyming lines turn praise of the inn's provisions into a pointed question about Bacon.
- Humor — The closing question plays on bacon as food and Bacon as the host's name.
Tags
inns · food · hosts · wordplay · epigrams
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Epigram, Humor
- Length: 75 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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