Oh Where Ha' You Been, Lord Randal, My Son
Taking title into consideration the poem might be about a mother and her son and where he has been. Reading his name i can expect they be members of aristocracy.

The layout shows the poem consist into 40 lines arranged into ten quarced that are stanzas consist of four lines.
The text is a poetry text and it's an alternation of narration and dialogue.

The first stanza starts with a question.
Lord Randal's mother asks her son where he has been and reapet that in the first two verse. This incremental repetition underlines apprehension of the mother towards the young man.
Lord Randal answers he went into a forest and thun he wonders her mother to make his bed because he is exhaustive.
The boy is less affective than his mother and this fact highlights an asymmetrical relationship between the two.
You can see it also looking at semantic choices: the mother says words like "my", " handsome", "youngman", Lord Randal says words like "mother" and gives order to his mother.
In the second stanzas the mother asks her son who he met there and reapet that in the first two lines. He asks her mother to make his bad beacuse he is exhaustive. He answers he met his true love at the forest.
In the third stanza he answers his mother's insistent questions and he says his true love gives him eels friesin a pan.
This expression is an allegory: the eels are fried like the man who is fall in love with his true love.
In the next two stanzas stanzas Lord Randal tells his mother that he has given his leavins to his hawks and his hounds and they died.
In the sixth stanza the peom changes its set rhitmic pattern; the two protagonist understood that Lord Randal was poisoned and he says he is sick at the heart. That's means he is very disappointed and sad about his love story.
The last four stanzas goes on with Lord Randal's mother questions about him heritage. He leaves twenty milk kyes to his mother, he leaves his gold and his silver to her sister and he leaves his houses and lands to his brother. Finally he leaves to his true-love her hell and fire.
There is also a refrain in the last verse of each stanza:
- from stanza 1 to stanza 5 "mak my bed soon For I'm wearied wi hunting', and fain wad lie doon"
- from stanza 6 to stanza 10 " mak my bed soon, For I'm sick at the heart, and fain wad lien doon".
Lord Randal's mother tone is sad, nostalgic beacuse she is worried for his soon at the same time Lord Randal is imposing, quick, assortive and he appears irrespective.
You can see it also listening the sound and the alliteration, in lines 1-2 letter "m" that involved nostalgic feeling and lines 3 letter "h" a soft sound that involved feeling of desider.
In the poem the reader connects to know the life style of the lord. He spends his day in the hood and his most important activity are hunting and have love story.