Julien Brown Period 1. The broken line of blank verse in Line 3 suits the emotion of the line, because Mercutio has realized that Romeo has become in love and its true love. 2. Shakespeare achieves an effect of suspense by breaking up a rhymed couplet into two separate scenes, and by making it suspenseful can entertain the reader, which was crucial in Shakespeare time. 3. The Five beats that are split between two speakers show the love because they rhyme after each other and are perfect for each other and show the love through words. 4. In Line 72 the effect of the stressed syllable swords shows the emotion given by Romeo when faced with the danger of marrying a Capulet. 5. Lines 135-136 don’t meet the criteria of a blank verse because they don’t have the required syllables and stresses, they have less than 5. 6. The nurse does not break the blank verse or the rhythm of line 151 because it shows the nurses personality and it was a repeated word from line 149. 7. Romeo and Juliet speak in blank verse because they are a main character or one of the crucial characters in the story, and in the fictional world, they are well educated and very passionate.