Holy Willie’s Prayer

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Holy Willie’s Prayer

monologue by Burns

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Burns
…hypocrisy, of which the monologue Holy Willie’s Prayer (written 1785) is an outstanding example. His work bears the imprint of the revolutionary decades in which he wrote, and recurrent in much of it are a joyful hymning of freedom, both individual and national, and an instinctive belief in the possibility…
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…hypocrisy, of which the monologue Holy Willie’s Prayer (written 1785) is an outstanding example. His work bears the imprint of the revolutionary decades in which he wrote, and recurrent in much of it are a joyful hymning of freedom, both individual and national, and an instinctive belief in the possibility…
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Burns metre
…iambic tetrameters, as in Burns’s Holy Willie’s Prayer:
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…iambic tetrameters, as in Burns’s Holy Willie’s Prayer:
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