Romeo’s Soliloquy Before Meeting Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
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Themes: Awe, Classical, Dramatic, Love, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Teenager
Length: 30 Seconds
Gender: Male
Romeo speaks these lines when he first sees Juliet at the Capulet ball. He is struck by her beauty and instantly falls in love, forgetting Rosaline and marveling at Juliet’s radiance.
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.