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Poetry: Shakespeare has slipped a disguised poem into the middle of his play - a playful yet

serious love poem between Romeo and Juliet. Read the poem and then answer the questions.

ROMEO
[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
1. Number the lines, Mark the rhyme scheme

2. Mark the rhythm of line 1, 5, 9, and 13

3. What type of sonnet is this? __________________________

4. Look at line 2. Find the two words that make the second half of
Romeo’s metaphor, and then write them on the line below.
Metaphor: Juliet is a ______________ _________________

5. Juliet accepts the compliment, calling Romeo what new name:


Metaphor: Romeo = ______________ _________________

6. What line has repetition? Line _____

7. Find an example of assonance: Line ___,


words ____________________________________________

8. Find and example of alliteration: line ___,


words ____________________________________________

9. Find an example of consonance: line ____,


words ____________________________________________

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