Lord Randal

The two people speaking during the ballad are Lord Randal and his mother. He went hunting in a wood where is not allowed to haunt. In the greenwood he met a Fairy who seems his true-love. She gave him and his dogs and hawks some fried eels to eat. His animals died on the way to go home, so he understood that he was poisoned and he will die. During the second part of the ballad he say an oral testament and he decided to leave to his mother something to eat, to his sister richness, to his brother fields and to his true love (the fairy) he hopes that she will go to hell.

There is a rhyme in each stanza between the third and the fourth line. There is an incremental repetition for keep a strong rhythm and to be easier to remember. The last line of the stanzas is the same in the first five stanzas and it changes in the other five. It is about supernatural things like fairies. It is written in Scottish and it is arranged into ten quatrains.