The folk ballad, “Lord Randall”, is a call-and-response narrative poem between a mother and her son. The plot of the story is revealed through their riveting conversation. Each stanza begins with the mother asking her son a question and ends with her son’s response. The incremental repetition in the poem shines through the second half of each question after the caesuras when the mother speaks and in the last line of each stanza except for the final line. In the first stanza, the mother asks her son where he has been and he tells her that he has been in the woods, but he is tired from hunting. Then, the mother asks her son where he got dinner and proceeds, in the next stanza, to ask what he ate; even so, he tells her that he ate boiled eels
