Read full poem →Although Dunbar is remembered largely for his dialect
verse, it was never his intention to concentrate on dialect.
Dictionary Entry
A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
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Poetry examples for “dialect”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →although _content_, _repent_, _rent_, and _lent_ rime well enough in the
Northern dialect. The third is that if I could be sure that the above lines
were by a well-known author, I should at once ascribe them to King James
Read full poem →Discussion of Fragment B. Test. I.--Proportion of English to
French. § 7. Test II.--Dialect. § 8. Test III.--The Riming of
_-y_ with _-yë_. § 9. Test IV.--Assonant Rimes. § 10.
Read full poem →No Rabbi reads the ancient Decalogue
In the grand dialect the Prophets spake.
Read full poem →James's Coffee-house. One day it was proposed to write epitaphs on him.
His country, dialect, and person furnished subjects of witticism. He
was called on for retaliation, and at their next meeting produced the
Read full poem →[On the title-page of the second or Edinburgh edition, were these
words: "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns,
printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787." The motto
Read full poem →a quite extraordinary kind. Since the time of the Reformation and the
union of the crowns of England and Scotland, the Scots dialect had
largely fallen into disuse as a medium for dignified writing. Shortly
Read full poem →bore on the title-page these simple words:--"Poems, chiefly in the
Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns;" the following motto, marked
"Anonymous," but evidently the poet's own composition, was more
Read full poem →Returning, know our borrow'd arms, and shape,
And differing dialect; then their numbers swell
And grow upon us; first Choroebus fell
Read full poem →To the tune of "Boomlay, boomlay, BOOM,"
# With a touch of negro dialect,
and as rapidly as possible toward the end. #