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Examples of Rhyme in Romeo and Juliet

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O she doth teach the torches to burn bright:It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night,Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear:Beauty too rich for us to use, for earth too dear... Did my heart love till now, forswear it sight,For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night
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One example is the Prologue rhyme scheme:

Two households, both alike in dignity, A
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, B
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, A
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. B
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes C
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; D
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows C
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. D
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, E
And the continuance of their parents' rage, F
Which, but their children's end, naught could remove, E
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; F
The which if you with patient ears attend, G
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. G
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