 Studying Romeo and Juliet. Here's how you can analyse that five scene one. The scene opens in Mantua, the city that Romeo has fled to, and we can see that he's woken up in a really good mood. He speaks using iambic pentameters to basically say that he had a really good dream. He dreamt that he had died, however Juliet came and found his dead body and revived him by kissing him back to life. The stage directions then show us that Baltazar, one of his confidants, has come with some news from Verona. Romeo's really excited to see him and he asks this series of questions because he wants to know how Juliet is as well as his father. Baltazar speaks using this oxymoron as we can see that he's trying to be really gentle in breaking the bad news of Juliet's death. He then speaks using iambic pentameter to finally break the news to Romeo that Juliet is rumoured dead and she will be buried in the Capulet tomb. Romeo is devastated when he learns this. He speaks using this exclamatory sentence to basically curse fortune. He's cursing his fate and this alludes back to the prologue where we learn that Juliet and Romeo are star cross lovers, but here we can see that Romeo is now defying these same stars. Romeo then asks if Friar Lawrence sent Baltazar with any letters. We can see that he wants to hear news from Friar Lawrence, however the Friar unfortunately did not use Baltazar as his messenger. In a fit of rage Romeo speaks using this imperative sentence to tell Baltazar to now go away. He then vows that he's going to sleep next to Juliet in the Capulet tomb that very evening. This foreshadows his eventual death and of course it also foreshadows how Juliet eventually kills herself and they do lie together once they are laid to rest. He then speaks using asonance. He uses the asonance of A hair as he remembers an apothecary. Apothecary is a medicine person, somebody who makes potions as well as poisons. He decides he's going to go to this person and ask for poison which he's going to use to kill himself. Romeo uses language belonging to the semantic field of poverty to basically say that he's going to convince the apothecary to give him poison even if he doesn't want to by giving him a large amount of money. Romeo spots apothecary walking the streets of Mantua and he offers him 40 due cats. In other words he offers him a large amount of money in order to get poison. The apothecary says that he can sell him poison but we can see that he's scared of the laws in Mantua because it's illegal to sell poison. The apothecary doesn't want to be put to death if he sells this poison onto Romeo. Romeo asks this rhetorical question to basically tell the apothecary that would he rather die having a little bit of money with him or he'd rather die of his poverty. In other words he's trying to convince him to sell this poison. The apothecary finally agrees because he is going to make a bit of money. He's too poor so he agrees to sell him the poison. With the poison in his hand Romeo speaks using this rhyming couplet to say that he's now going to go back to Verona to die in Juliet's grave.