The Bard at Inverary by Robert Burns
The speaker pities anyone staying here unless they have come to wait upon His Grace, mockingly styled their god. Complaining of Highland pride, scab and hunger, the speaker suggests that if Providence sent them here, it did so in anger.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Epigram, Satirical Poetry · 73 words
First lines
Whoe'er he be that sojourns here, / I pity much his case, / Unless he comes to wait upon / The Lord their God, His Grace.
There's naething here but Highland pride, / And Highland scab and hunger: / If Providence has sent me here, / 'Twas surely in his anger.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Epigram, Satirical Poetry
- Length: 73 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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Genres
- Epigram — Two compact rhyming stanzas deliver pointed attacks on deference to His Grace and the conditions of the speaker's stay.
- Satirical Poetry — The speaker mockingly calls His Grace a god and treats being sent here by Providence as a sign of divine anger.
Tags
aristocratic deference · Highland pride · hunger · satire · epigram