
Romeo and Juliet
Approaching Shakespeare
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Juliet and Romeo's Marriage in Early Teenage
The rhythms are clearly impatient and breathless. The inverted foot begins the soliloquy as a trophy, not an eye arm. So it's stressed, unstressed rather than unstressed, stressed. And Juliet's own image for her impatience understands that she is actually too eager for this adult experience. Her kind of go-to image for what it's like to want something and not be able to have it yet is that you've got new clothes and you can't wear them. Now similarly it's from childhood experience and it moving the gap between the present and the hurried future.
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