Analysis of Ballads  Analysis of "Lord Randall", "Edward,
Edward" and "Get Up and Bar the Door"   • In Lord Randall the
question left unanswered is whether or not he dies from the
poison and just where he go poisoned.  In the ballad Edward,
Edward the motive for killing his father is never revealed nor
is his destination.  Get Up and Bar the Door leaves the reader
with many questions like, why does one of the gentlemen want to
kiss the wife of the other man?  Frankie and Johnny is very
blunt about the mysteries associated with it saying, “This story
has no moral.  This story has no end.”   • In the first two
lines of the fifth stanza “O I fear ye are poison’d” is repeated
and represents the climax of the the ballad.  The emotional
effect changes from excitement to fear as the repetition of that
switches to “O yes!  I am poison’d.”  Seeing as this is the
rising action it is an appropriate pIace for the refrain   • In
Lord Randall the climax is reached when he realizes that he has
been poisoned.  In Edward, Edw