Sempill, Robert

Sempill, Robert

▪ Scottish poet
born c. 1595
died c. 1665

      Scottish poet who first used the metre that became the standard form for the Scottish humorous elegy.

      The son of the poet Sir James Sempill of Beltrees, he was educated at the University of Glasgow. He wrote the elegy “The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan” (1640). This humorous poem in Scots was included by James Watson in his Choice Collection (1706), and its fame was assured when the poet Allan Ramsay called its metre “Standart Habbie” and used it himself in several poems. “Standart Habbie,” sometimes called the “Habbie Simson stanza,” was later known, after its greatest exponent, Robert Burns, as “the Burns stanza.”

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