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Rhyming Verse
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Act 1,
Scene 2
Lines 26-37

An example of rhyming verse in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2

Capulet

Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-apparelled April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads — even such delight
Among fresh fennel buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house. Hear all, all see                           
And like her most whose merit most shall be,
Which on more view, of many, mine being one,
May stand in number, though in reckoning none.
Come, go with me.
[To Servant, giving him a piece of paper]
                                 Go, sirrah, trudge about
Through fair Verona; find those persons out
Whose names are written there, and to them say,
My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.

This is another example of rhyming verse because the character is speaking of romance. Almost all the lines in Lord Capulet’s speech are rhyming couplets.