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William Shakespeare’s classical play ‘The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’ begins with a prologue. Unlike most prologues this one is in the form of a sonnet. Sonnets usually consist of 14 lines, the prologue of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ follows this structure. In this sonnet the 14 lines are divided up into 3 sections of 4 lines and the last section is made up of 2 lines. This sonnet uses three different methods to separate the 4 sections from one another. The first method is that the sections beging and end as sentences (at the end of the first 3 lines there are commas, but at the end of the fourth line of the section there is a full stop.) This is method is present in the first three sections. The next method that is applied is that each new sentence begins a different topic, moving the audience gradually through the storyline of the play avoiding confusion. The third method that is used is the use of rhyming couplets. These are used alternatively in the three sections, made of 4 lines so, for example the first line would rhyme with the third and the second with the fourth and so on. However in the last section (lines 13 & 14) the rhyming couplets are not placed alternatively, they are placed together. One reason for this is that