Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging. Such a wagoner
As Phaëton would whip you to the west
And bring in cloudy night immediately.Alliteration & Allusion
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo
Leap to these arms, untalked of and unseen.Personification
So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.
Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
By their own beauties, or, if love be blind,Personification
It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black,
ParadoxAnd learn me how to lose a winning match
Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.
Hood my unmanned blood, bating in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night.Personification & Metaphor Come, Romeo. Come, thou day in night,Paradox
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.Simile
Come, gentle night; come, loving black-browed night,Metaphor
Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love
But not possessed it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoyed. SimileSo tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.Conceit & Metaphor
Enter Nurse with cords.
O, here comes my nurse,
And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks
But Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence.—Synecdoche