Alfred Noyes, the British poet famous for his ballad "The Highwayman," has been declared "one of Britain's most prolific, most popular and most traditional poets." 1 He wrote mainly in Welsh country ballad form; some of his works were set to music by Sir Edward Elgar. Furthermore, despite having poor eyesight as an old man, he continued to write almost until his death. Noyes was born on September 16, 1880 in Wolverhampton, England, to Alfred and Amelia Adam Rawley Noyes. He composed his first poem at the relatively young age of nine, and by the age of fourteen he had produced his first epic, an allegory consisting of over a thousand lines. Alfred Noyes was, in subsequent years, educated and trained in England, at Exeter College, Oxford. However, he refrained from completing his degree and instead concentrated on publishing his first volume of poetry, titled The Loom of Years (1902). In 1907 he married an American, Garnett Daniels, daughter of Colonel G. Byron Daniels. , and subsequently spent much of his time in the United States. Furthermore, with the publication of multiple volumes of poetry, the artist was “acclaimed as England's leading poet”2 and in the first two decades of his career he successfully wrote an astonishing two dozen poetic novels. Garnett Daniels eventually died in 1926, and Noyes converted to Catholicism and married his second wife, Mary Angela Mayne Weld-Blundell. Over the next few years, the couple moved to Lisle Combe, St. Laurence, located on the Isle of Wight, where Mr Noyes continued to pursue his literary activities. During the Second World War they lived alternately in Canada and the United States. of its kind in the sense that its verses contain refrains. These refrains are typically short and consist of only two or four words. Furthermore, in the second half and second stanza of the poem, there are seven lines, while the rest of the stanzas, in both halves of the poem, contain six lines. The purpose of one remaining line is for a specific phrase (“by moonlight”) to be repeated and foreshadows that a climactic event will occur late at night.5 Every single line of the poem is written in hexameter, meaning there are six poetic verses. feet included in each row. The poetic meter of “The Highwayman” is also a blend of the patterns anapestic meter (marked as unstressed-unstressed-stressed) and iambic pentameter (unstressed-stressed).