How do these stanzas fit the characteristics of a ballad?
Excerpt from “Robin Hood and the Beggar”
They thought they would the money take,
Come after what so may:
And then they would not bring him back,
But in that place him slay.
By that good Robin would not know
That they had gotten coin;
It would content him for to show
That there they had him slain.
There is a refrain between stanzas.
A subject is given human characteristics.
There is a regular rhythm and rhyme scheme.