Download To A Mouse Poem Gif. While ploughing one of his fields one day, the ploughman poet happened to disturb a mouse's nest. Like 'daffodils or 'sonnet 18', we barely read it anymore, the title is shorthand for what we think it says.
Have you ever made careful plans that went absolutely and completely wrong? .to a mouse was written in 1785 and published in kilmarnock, scotland, on july 31, 1786, as part of a collection of burns's poems entitled poems, chiefly in the scottish dialect. 'to a mouse' is almost entirely composed of iambs, or sets of two syllables in a pattern of iambic tetrameter, meaning that there are four iambs per line.
However, it has so long been my favourite poem, i have bored so many people but, in its own way, 'to a mouse' is a neglected poem.
The comparison, however, is neither forced nor sentimental, and the gap. The comparison, however, is neither forced nor sentimental, and the gap. Like 'daffodils or 'sonnet 18', we barely read it anymore, the title is shorthand for what we think it says. .robert burns wrote to a mouse as a vernacular poem that tells a little story in an english dialect called scots.