Higher; To a Mouse Stanzas 7 and 8: Pessimistic climax. Based on a vivid personal experience of ploughing up a mouse’s nest and of being a struggling tenant farmer, this poem epitomises Burns ...

Revise Robert Burn' poem 'To a Louse' and its themes of social justice and self awareness as part of Higher English. ... To a Louse Stanzas 7-8 Seeing ourselves as others see us.

The poem, two rhymed stanzas of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines, gets much of its melodic power from its mostly trochaic feet, those falling sounds that Byron was always so good at. But ...