LADY DIAMOND
- The ballad is made up of 13 four-line stanzas.
- It has not got a regular rhyme scheme, but sometimes they are alternated.
- The story is told through narration by an omniscient narrator but you can find also dialogs. Descriptive passages are short and concise.
- The language is concrete and the style simple.
- This beginning remind me a fable and it told us an indefinite time and space, while the ballad does not say that; both talk about a king and his daughter.
- The second stanza refers to autumns: "till the grass overgrew the corn".
- The fourth stanza refers to winter because the text says "on a winter's night".
- Lady Diamond's hands are lily and white to underline her noble origins while the boy's breast is white to underline the purity of his soul.
- Lady Diamond knows that she disobeyed her father so she prays him not to end their love.
- I think, the singer's attitude seems to stand by the girl.

THE HOUSE CARPENTER
- The man is a seaman who said to be rich and he is fallen in love with the wife of a house carpenter. They have got a relationship, but it is temporary.
- The man said he could have married the King's daughter and become rich but he preferred the love of the girl.
- The man wants the girl to leave her husband, her son and her house and to go away with him.
- She needs to know if the man is rich or not.
- Once she has left, she misses her baby.
- The ship sinks and they die
- Here I can find the repetition, the alliteration, and the rhyme, the use of concrete language and the theme of the tragic love and religion.
- The sea captain is the tempter devil. It reminds me the episode of the snake who tempted Eva to eat the apple.
- Heaven is fair and high, while Hell is dark and low.
- Heaven is a forbidden place for the lovers because sometimes they go against the wil of God.