So I've been reading Robert Burns. "The Songs and Poems of Robert Burns" a collection sorted by year that was published around 1900. (I don't remember the exact date). He is a tough poet to read, and I don't mean the mix of Gaelic with English. That is easy enough to read and even if I don't know the exact word I can look it up or figure it out from context. He is just hard to read. I suspect its the a rythmactic nature of his poems. The songs read quickly and easily, by the poems are at times quite harsh.

Any one else experience this?