Lord Randal

We analysed
in class the first six stanzas, so I'll begin with the seventh one.

Like the
other stanzas, also this one begins with lord Randal's mother: she ask him what
will he leave to her. The second line repeat the question with very similar
words. The mother asks him that because otherwise, when lord Randal will die,
she wouldn't inherit anything. Lord Randal decide to leave her twenty four milk
cows, to provide her a good oldness, giving her something to provide her the
food she will need.

In the eight
stanza, the mother asks him what will he leave to his sister, because also the
sister, because she's a woman, without any specific order, won't inherit. Lord Randal
answer he will leave her his gold and his silver; because in the middle-ages
woman must had a dowry to marry someone. If women didn't marry, they had to
become nuns or they would have considered witches. For a noble lady was a shame
to be considered a witch, and the life of a nun would have stolen her (a few of)
freedom, so she had quite no choice.

In the
ninth stanza, the mother asks him what will he leave to his brother. Lord Randal
leave him all his land and houses, but the importance of this stanza is a lot
lower than the previous two, because the brother would have inherit these
things anyway.

In the last
stanza, the mother asks him what will he leave to his true-love. Lord Randal
says he leave her "hell and fire", to show us he knows she did a very serious
sin, like poisoning her lord and lover.