Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmo
A weary speaker walks through northern glens and steep hills until Breadalbane comes into view, describing its lake, the young Tay, a palace, bridges and village. Wandering alone near a hermit's mossy cell, woods and waterfalls, the speaker feels poetic inspiration and imagines the landscape soothing disappointment and grief.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Nature Poetry, Reflective Poetry · 334 words
First lines
Over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The speaker describes steep glens, wooded hills, a lake, the winding Tay and roaring waterfalls in rhyming verse.
- Reflective Poetry — The closing lines imagine how this landscape might inspire poetry, ease misfortune and help injured people forgive.
Tags
mountain walking · lakes · rivers · waterfalls · poetic inspiration · consolation
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Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore is listed on Textopian as a poem by Robert Burns, dated Date unknown.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Reflective Poetry
- Length: 334 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Very Confusing
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