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The poem talks about the beautiful love between Romeo and Juliet.The text referred to the scene of the Balcony Scene. It is the extract about Romeo and Juliet's first meeting.
In the moonlight, Romeo hidden under the balcony of girl, he hears her alone and discovers that she reciprocates his love. The scene comes alive with the passionate monologue of Romeo and Juliet unexpected love confession, hesitating between the youthful passion and doubt to face with a young man of the Montagues is an impossible story. Being families Montagues and Capulets fairs enemy, Juliet reflects about the value of names: a name is just a blank label that does not change the substance of things and persons; the rose would always be so fragrant even if he had another name, at this point Romeo would always be perfect, even without that name that separates them. Now the girl is ready to give up his name and hopes that Romeo deny his father. At this point the young man comes out of the closet and reveals his feelings with those words:"Call me but love". The two young exchange their vow of love, defined by Juliet like a flash that illuminates for a moment the darkness of the night and as a beautiful flower: the two images sum up the sense of transience of this brief meeting, over which looms the death of the two star-crossed lovers.
The text is characterized by hyperbole and metaphor, the language is full of rhetorical figures