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* RapunzelHair: Bess and the highwayman try to touch hands, but even with him standing up in the stirrups, he can barely reach her. So she unties her hair, which falls easily to his face -- so we're talking hair that's at least four feet long.
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* ForcedToWatch: The redcoats truss Bess up so she can see the road that her lover would ride -- had things gone according to their plan -- she would have been able to see the red coats shoot him as well.
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* RapunzelHair: Bess and the highwayman try to touch hands, but even with him standing up, up in the stirrups, he can barely reach her. So she unties her hair, which falls easily to his face -- so we're talking hair that's at least four feet long.
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* DeathIsDramatic: And ''how!''
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* FlyingDutchman: How it all ends.
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* FlyingDutchman: How it all ends.ends-- the narration presents a windy night, eerie and dark, and then the highwayman rides up once again towards the inn, and Bess is still waiting at the window, braiding her hair. Forever.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Bess frees herself just enough to be able to reach the trigger of the musket tied next to her. With no more time, she pulls it, killing herself and warning the approaching highwayman away from the redcoats's trap.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Bess frees herself just enough to be able to reach the trigger of the musket tied next to her. With no more time, she pulls it, killing herself and warning the approaching highwayman away from the redcoats's redcoats' trap.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow : Bess, the landlord's black-haired, black-eyed daughter.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow : CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Bess, the landlord's black-haired, black-eyed daughter.
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* BlondeGuysAreEvil: Tim the Ostler has 'hair like mouldy hay'.
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* DesignatedVillain: The redcoats are treated as villainous, even though they are trying to stop a dangerous criminal.
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The poem has remained popular through the years, and was in 1995 voted 15th in the poll for England's favourite poems. LoreenaMcKennitt has also sung a musical version omitting some verses.
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The poem has remained popular through the years, and was in 1995 voted 15th in the poll for England's favourite poems. LoreenaMcKennitt Music/LoreenaMcKennitt has also sung a musical version omitting some verses.
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* AdaptedOut: Tim is absent from LoreenaMcKennitt's version. [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole As a result, there's no apparent reason given for why the king's army came to ambush the highwayman at the inn.]]
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* AdaptedOut: Tim the ostler is absent from LoreenaMcKennitt's Music/LoreenaMcKennitt's version. [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole As a result, there's no apparent reason given for why the king's army came to ambush the highwayman at the inn.]]
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** SenselessSacrifice: Unfortunately, when he hears of her death the next morning, his rage overtakes him and he returns to the inn, where he's shot dead on the spot.
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* SenselessSacrifice: Bess's sacrifice to save the highwayman comes to nothing because when he hears of Bess's death, his rage overtakes him and he returns to the inn, where he's shot dead on the spot.
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* RapunzelHair: Bess and the highwayman try to touch hands, but even with him standing up, he can barely reach her. So she unties her hand, which falls easily to his face -- so we're talking hair that's at least four feet long.
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* RapunzelHair: Bess and the highwayman try to touch hands, but even with him standing up, he can barely reach her. So she unties her hand, hair, which falls easily to his face -- so we're talking hair that's at least four feet long.
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* RapunzelHair: Bess and the highwayman try to touch hands, but even with him standing up, he can barely reach her. So she unties her hand, which falls easily to his face -- so we're talking hair that's at least four feet long.
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* AdaptedOut: Tim is absent from LoreenaMcKennitt's version. [[PlotHole As a result, there's no apparent reason given for why the king's army came to ambush the highwayman at the inn.]]
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* AdaptedOut: Tim is absent from LoreenaMcKennitt's version. [[PlotHole [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole As a result, there's no apparent reason given for why the king's army came to ambush the highwayman at the inn.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: Bess tried, but...frees herself just enough to be able to reach the trigger of the musket tied next to her. With no more time, she pulls it, killing herself and warning the approaching highwayman away from the redcoats's trap.
** SenselessSacrifice: Unfortunately, when he hears of her death the next morning, his rage overtakes him and he returns to the inn, where he's shot dead on the spot.
** SenselessSacrifice: Unfortunately, when he hears of her death the next morning, his rage overtakes him and he returns to the inn, where he's shot dead on the spot.
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* NoNameGiven: The highwayman, again.
* SenselessSacrifice: Bess's suicide succeeds in warning the highwayman away, but when he hears of her death the next morning, his rage overtakes him and he returns to the inn, where he's shot dead on the spot.
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* NoNameGiven: The highwayman, again.
* SenselessSacrifice: Bess's suicide succeeds in warningagain. Also the highwayman away, but when he hears of her death the next morning, his rage overtakes him and he returns to the inn, where he's shot dead on the spot.landlord.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The landlord, Bess's father. He's given the tiniest mention when the redcoats show up, but it's never revealed what became of him.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: What leads the highwayman to end up ''walking right into the ambush his love had given her life to warn him of''.
* RevengeBeforeReason: What leads the highwayman to end up ''walking right into the ambush his love had given her life to warn him of''.
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* AdaptedOut: Tim is absent from LoreenaMcKennitt's version. [[PlotHole As a result, there's no apparent reason given for why the king's army came to ambush the highwayman at the inn.]]
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zero context examples and poorly written examples for Raven Hair Ivory Skin are being removed. If this example does fit this trope please re-add and elaborate by mentioning the character\'s pale skin, black hair, and explain how the work portrays them as outstandingly attractive.
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* RavenHairIvorySkin: Bess.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The highwayman.
* ExactEavesdropping: Tim ''just'' so happens to hear the highwayman talking all about his plans to Bess. Uh-oh.
* ExactEavesdropping: Tim ''just'' so happens to hear the highwayman talking all about his plans to Bess. Uh-oh.
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* ExactEavesdropping: Tim just ''so'' happens to hear the highwayman talking all about his plans to Bess. Uh-oh.
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* BookEnds: The last two verses repeat the first and the third one.
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* BangingForHelp: A variation when Bess, tied up, shoots herself to warn her lover away.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow : Bess, the landlord's black-haired, black-eyed daughter
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* StupidSacrifice: Bess shoots herself to warn the highwayman of the trap. He gets himself killed anyway.
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Please don\'t pothole Understatement when making one. See the note on Understatement. Otherwise, nice page.
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-> The opening lines.
Written by Alfred Noyes in 1906, ''The Highwayman'' is a poem about, well, a [[TheHighwayman highwayman]] who is in love with a landlord's daughter in 18th-Century England and is betrayed to the authorities by the ostler[[note]]the stableman[[/note]] while out robbing. [[DownerEnding It ends]] [[{{Understatement}} badly]].
Written by Alfred Noyes in 1906, ''The Highwayman'' is a poem about, well, a [[TheHighwayman highwayman]] who is in love with a landlord's daughter in 18th-Century England and is betrayed to the authorities by the ostler[[note]]the stableman[[/note]] while out robbing. [[DownerEnding It ends]] [[{{Understatement}} badly]].
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Written by Alfred Noyes in 1906, ''The Highwayman'' is a poem about, well, a [[TheHighwayman highwayman]] who is in love with a landlord's daughter in 18th-Century England and is betrayed to the authorities by the ostler[[note]]the stableman[[/note]] while out robbing. [[DownerEnding It
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!! Tropes in this ballad:
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Tim's plan.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Tim's Tim[[note]]the ostler[[/note]]'s plan.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: What leads the highwayman to end up ''walking right into the ambush his love had given her life to warn him of''.
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* Expy: The highwayman is one of Dick Turpin.
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* Expy: {{Expy}}: The highwayman is one of Dick Turpin.
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* BlackHair: Bess.
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* RavenHairPaleSkin: Bess.
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->''The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,''
->''The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,''
->''The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,''
->''And the highwayman came riding--''
-->''Riding--riding--''
->''The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.''
-> The opening lines.
Written by Alfred Noyes in 1906, ''The Highwayman'' is a poem about, well, a [[TheHighwayman highwayman]] who is in love with a landlord's daughter in 18th-Century England and is betrayed to the authorities by the ostler[[note]]the stableman[[/note]] while out robbing. [[DownerEnding It ends]] [[{{Understatement}} badly]].
*BlackHair: Bess.
*BoundAndGagged: Bess through most of the second half.
*DownerEnding: You ''bet''.
*Expy: The highwayman is one of Dick Turpin.
*EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The highwayman.
*FlyingDutchman: How it all ends.
*HeroicSacrifice: Bess's intention with the whole shooting herself thing.
*HeroicVow: ''I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though Hell should bar the way''.
*MurderTheHypotenuse: Tim's plan.
*StupidSacrifice: Bess shoots herself to warn the highwayman of the trap. He gets himself killed anyway.
*RavenHairPaleSkin: Bess.
*RedCoats: The antagonists for the second half.
->''The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,''
->''The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,''
->''And the highwayman came riding--''
-->''Riding--riding--''
->''The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.''
-> The opening lines.
Written by Alfred Noyes in 1906, ''The Highwayman'' is a poem about, well, a [[TheHighwayman highwayman]] who is in love with a landlord's daughter in 18th-Century England and is betrayed to the authorities by the ostler[[note]]the stableman[[/note]] while out robbing. [[DownerEnding It ends]] [[{{Understatement}} badly]].
*BlackHair: Bess.
*BoundAndGagged: Bess through most of the second half.
*DownerEnding: You ''bet''.
*Expy: The highwayman is one of Dick Turpin.
*EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The highwayman.
*FlyingDutchman: How it all ends.
*HeroicSacrifice: Bess's intention with the whole shooting herself thing.
*HeroicVow: ''I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though Hell should bar the way''.
*MurderTheHypotenuse: Tim's plan.
*StupidSacrifice: Bess shoots herself to warn the highwayman of the trap. He gets himself killed anyway.
*RavenHairPaleSkin: Bess.
*RedCoats: The antagonists for the second half.
