Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at S
The speaker contrasts the Stuarts' former rule for Scotland's welfare with their now roofless palace at Stirling. The speaker calls their displaced line injured and attacks its foreign successors as dishonourable and despised.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Political Poetry, Satire · 117 words
First lines
Of an Inn at Stirling, on seeing the Royal Palace in ruin.
Here Stuarts once in glory reigned, / And laws for Scotland's weal ordained; / But now unroof'd their palace stands, / Their sceptre's sway'd by other hands; / Fallen indeed, and to the earth / Whence groveling reptiles take their birth. / The injured Stuart line is gone, / A race outlandish fills their throne; / An idiot race, to honour lost; / Who know them best despise them most.
Genres
- Political Poetry — The rhyming lines contrast the Stuarts' laws and former sovereignty with the rulers who now hold their throne.
- Satire — The speaker ridicules the succeeding dynasty as an idiot race and associates its degradation with groveling reptiles.
Tags
monarchy · dynastic succession · ruined palace · Scotland · political satire
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Political Poetry, Satire
- Length: 117 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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