Two households, both alike in dignity
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudgeParenthesis break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.Antanaclesis & Synecdoche
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
From forth the fatal loins of these two foesAlliteration, Oxymoron & Synecdoche
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;Epithet
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their deathAlliteration bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,Transferred Epithets
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,Parenthesis
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here Alliterationshall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.Parenthesis & Synecdoche