The Race Of Banquo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA AADDEE FFCCAA GGHH II| Fly son of Banquo Fleance fly | A |
| Leave thy guilty sire to die | A |
| O'er the heath the stripling fled | B |
| The wild storm howling round his head | B |
| Fear mightier thro' the shades of night | C |
| Urged his feet and wing'd his flight | C |
| And still he heard his father cry | A |
| Fly son of Banquo Fleance fly | A |
| - | |
| Fly son of Banquo Fleance fly | A |
| Leave thy guilty sire to die | A |
| On every blast was heard the moan | D |
| The anguish'd shriek the death fraught groan | D |
| Loathly night hags join the yell | E |
| And see the midnight rites of Hell | E |
| - | |
| Forms of magic spare my life | F |
| Shield me from the murderer's knife | F |
| Before me dim in lurid light | C |
| Float the phantoms of the night | C |
| Behind I hear my Father cry | A |
| Fly son of Banquo Fleance fly | A |
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| Parent of the sceptred race | G |
| Fearless tread the circled space | G |
| Fearless Fleance venture near | H |
| Sire of monarchs spurn at fear | H |
| - | |
| Sisters with prophetic breath | I |
| Pour we now the dirge of Death | I |
Robert Southey
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