The ballad "Lord Randal" has lots of repetitions that creates a repetitive rhythm, as the rhythm of a jingle. The phrases "Lord Randal my son", "my handsome young man" and "make my bed soon, for I'm wearied wi' hunting, and fain wad lie doon" are repeated in every stanza and they create an incremental repetition and a dance like pattern. The marked words are often the key words of the ballad. In "Lord Randal" the marked words, and consequently the important words, are:

•·         Lord Randal: it is the noun of the protagonist

•·         Greenwood: the place where Lord Randal has been

•·         True-love: the woman who met Lord Randal. To tell the truth she wasn't his true-love because she has poisoned him

•·         They died: Lord Randal explains his mother what happened to their hounds and hawks. His mother discovers he was poisoned

•·         Poisoned: what happened to the protagonist

•·         Cows: what he leaves to his mother

•·         Silver: what he leaves to his sister

•·         Houses and land: what he leaves to his brother

•·         Fire and hell: what he leaves to his true-love