Question

Read the following line from the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns.

Answer 1

Answer:

winds

Explanation:

The odd contractions like "wa' s" and "win' s" are used by Robert Burns in his poem “To a Mouse” to mimic the sound of the spoken Scots dialect. If you se the poem in this part the author is talking about the house of the mouse, the contraction "win' s" refers to "winds", the wind s that ruined the walls of the mouse’s house.

Answer 2

The word "win's" means winds.