<span>BLANK VERSE - 1. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. (Robert Frost, "Mending Wall")</span><span>
BLANK VERSE - 4.It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. ( Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses")
</span><span>BALLAD STANZA - 2. The king sits in Dumferling toune, Drinking the blude-reid wine: O quhar will I get guid sailòr, To sail this schip of mine. (Anonymous, "Sir Patrick Spens")
BALLAD STANZA - 3. The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din. ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner") </span>
The central topic in this scene is clothing. When King Duncan grants Macbeth with thane of Cawdor, Macbeth refers to this title as "borrowed robes" because thane is alive and he doesn't want to wear the old man's clothing. Clothing is a symbolism for rank here representing the status in a community, in this scene in a royal one. Macbeth doesn't want the rank while the holder is still alive.