Bonny Barbara Allen
Title 
The title opens up the expectation in the reader mind. The reader makes conjectures ,hypothesis about the possible content of the text ,whenever he has an expectation. 
Bonny Barbara Allen reminds me a name of a woman whom the writer fell in love with.

Layout 
	Layout gives us information about a type of text we are going to read.
Analyze the structure
This poem wade up of 8 short stanzas of four lines is a ballad. The structure of a ballad contains repletion of words and lines, mixture of dialogue and narration and there are both real and supernatural characters. In a ballad the main themes are love, war, domestic tragedy and out Lawry.

Short summary
Sir John loves Barbara Allen. When he tells her, she is cold towards him, he slighted her at one point. She rejects him repeatedly. Ultimately, she leaves, he dies, and she realizes what she has lost.

Message
The message might be that one doesn’t need to take love for granted, or it might not be there when it is wanted.
It relates to modern times when may relationships involve somebody who loves the other and isn’t appreciated.

Analysis
In the ballad there aren’t references to famous and know places, people and events.

Figurative language
Repeated words and phrases.
These words are repeated for emphasis lines 9, 13, 19, 23, 25, 26 [v.9 (hooly), v.13 (very sick), v.19 (round), v.23 (adieu), vv.25-26 (slowly, slowly)] ;
in 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 stanzas there is at least one repeated word adding to the singsong quality of the ballade. 

anastrophe: v.9 (rose she up), v.16 (were a spilling), v.22 (was with him dealing), v.25 (raise she up)

Rhyme scheme
The rhyme scheme isn’t regular, so it varies throughout the poem.