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"run on the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark"
Metaphor
Act 5,
Scene 3

A metaphor of the poison Romeo drinks to a ship running into the rocks in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3.

Romeo compares the bitter poison which will end his weary life to a distraught ship’s pilot who runs his “sea-sick” ship onto the rocks.