Lord Randal
English ballad
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- crime theme in ballads
- In ballad: Crime
…ballads: his sweetheart poisons “Lord Randal”; “Little Musgrave” is killed by Lord Barnard when he is discovered in bed with Lady Barnard, and the lady, too, is gorily dispatched. The murders of “Jim Fisk,” Johnny of “Frankie and Johnny,” and many other ballad victims are prompted by sexual jealousy.…
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- incremental repetition
- In incremental repetition
…following stanzas from the ballad “Lord Randal”:
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- In incremental repetition
- strong-stress metre
- In prosody: Strong-stress metres
“Lord Randal” can be comfortably scanned to show a line of mixed iambic and anapestic feet; it clearly reveals, however, a four-stress structure:
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- In prosody: Strong-stress metres