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15 Cards in this Set
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Romeo- If I profane with my unworthiest hand |
Profane=Unholy |
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This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: |
Comparing Juliet to a holy shrine. Sin= Penalty |
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My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. |
He's the pilgrim |
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To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. |
Verona, Italy |
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Juliet- Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much |
Juliet likes his metaphor and to keep going. |
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Which mannerly devotion shows in this; |
Mannerly devotion= to manners |
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For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch. |
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And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss |
Palmers= palm bearers
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Romeo- Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? |
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Juliet- Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. |
Juliet is being coy.
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Romeo- O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. |
English sonnet |
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They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. |
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Juliet- Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
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Saints do not move- Initiate things
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Romeo- Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. |
Literally don't move. |
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Sonnet= 14 lines, A-B Rhyme Scheme Ambic Foot- Iambic Penta/meter
Unaccented syllable followed by accented one. |
Penta=5 Meter= measure |
