Romeo and juliet balcony script4/9/2023 Like the line before, this one also contains 11 total syllables and is arguably ended by an anapest. / - / - / - /Īrise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Anyway, Romeo romantically compares the window to the eastern horizon at dawn he hasn't seen Juliet appear yet (at least in most interpretations of the script), but, like the dim light appearing before sunrise, the light heralds her arrival. It begins with a pyrrhic, which isn't such an oddity in itself, but the scansion following the mid-line caesura causes some consternation unless A) Shakespeare intended Juliet to be pronounced more like "JOOL-yet" instead of "JOOL-i-ET," or B) "is the sun" is intended as an anapest to end the line. The second line is more eccentric in its meter. "But soft! what light breaks through yonder window" would have a decidedly different rhythm. The line also shows how a slight shift in the syntactic order, shifting the word "breaks" to the end of the phrase rather than directly following the subject of "light," is used to make the line better fit the meter. As light appears at Juliet's window above, Romeo begins his metaphoric comparison of Juliet to the sunrise. Romeo begins in straightforward iambic pentameter, with stresses regularly punctuating every other syllable. Overview | Readings Page | Home - / - / - / - / - /īut, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks."
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