The title is “Capulet’s orchard”. It makes the reader understand that the scene might place in the Capulets’ garden near an orchard.

The structure can infer at the reader that the scene coincides with a dialogue between Romeo and Juliet.

The extract can then be divided, in three distinct sequences:

The initial Romeo's monologue;

·         The monologue of Juliet;

·         The dialogue between the two young.

The first two expressions which the poet wants to draw the attention are “Enter Romeo” and “Juliet appears”. The word "appear" underlines the supernatural power of the woman:  Juliet  was considered a vision. This is in line with the Dolce Stilnovo values.

In the Romeo’s monologue he thought he was alone, so his voice is loud enough to be heard by Juliet, who is standing above at a window lost in thought.

At the beginning Romeo was speaking alone, but after he notices a light trough the window and realizes Juliet is there and can hear him, so his voice becomes louder.

The semantic field of nature Romeo uses in his speech helps the reader in understanding the emotions he feels to Juliet: he compares her to the sun, inciting to fight against the moon showing her beauty and brightness, defining the moon as something to kill, jealous, upset and pale. Shakespeare express a contrast between the sun, represented  by Juliet and the moon, represented by Rosaline.  Now, his love for Juliet has outshone the moon.

Semantic field of astronomy (stars, sun) is related to her qualities or physical appearance: Shakespeare compares her cheek to a daylight’s brightness highlighting once more the parallelism between Juliet and nature. Also semantic field of nature (daylight, heaven, bird, night) continues the poet’s rhetorical choices in Romeo’s speech defining her eyes able to make birds singing thinking about the end of night. The last three lines coincide with Romeo’s wish to become a glove to feel an to touch passionately Juliet’s candid cheek.

Juliet’s first words are an exclamation: she hears some strange noises and pronounces it because she’s curious to find out what are the next words of the mysterious man.

Than Juliet pronounces her famous words “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”. With the expression she lets the reader understand she knew the mysterious man was Romeo and now she tackles the problem of the two families’ rivalry. She tells Romeo she’s willing to forget about the Capulets and escaping with him to get married, as long as he pronounces his oath of love.

Romeo is now confused: he doesn’t know what to do, to answers or not to. Besides Juliet’s following words convince him: she doesn’t care about their families rivalry, she only wants his love. She doesn’t know the importance of the Montagues, that’s only a name, not enough to forbid their love. Then she asks him to forget his name. He does it.