PROLOGUE from Romeo and Juliet

Two households, both alike in dignity.

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. 5

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' rage, 10

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

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PROLOGUE from Romeo and Juliet


Two households, both alike in dignity.


In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 


From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. 


Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 


From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. 5 


A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; 


Whose misadventured piteous overthrows 


Do with their death bury their parents' rage, 10 


Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, 


Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

anonymous · Answer

The which if you with patient ears attend, 


What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 



The last two lines of the poem rhyme, forming a poetic device known as a
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		refrain
		couplet
		alliteration
		simile

anonymous · Answer

a beautiful verse from the play is a couplet

anonymous · Answer

I wanna say alliteration but I wouldn't swear to it

anonymous · Answer

a couplet is usually two verses that rhyme and are the same meter

anonymous · Answer

okay then a couplet xD

anonymous · Answer

make up urs minds lol

anonymous · Answer

you were close becca but a alliteration would be like harry's hairy legs are hairy