 Studying the Merchant of Venice, here's how you can analyse Act 1, Scene 1. The play begins by focusing our attention on Antonio, the merchant, and the use of Sibilant's hair as well as the repetition of the word wearies shows that he's a very melancholic figure. His friends try to comfort him and the metaphor here shows that Salarino believes Antonio is sad because all of his money is aboard ships which are on a voyage. Antonio disagrees and the repetition hair of Nor as well as the literation of M hair shows he's saying he's not really worried about his investments are gonna do well. Salarino then guesses he's in love which Antonio denies hair. His other friend, Gratiano, then speaks in jokes and riddles hair using Iron Bit Pentameter to try and cheer Antonio up. Then Bessonio, Antonio's best friend, approaches him and he speaks in Iron Bit Pentameter here to remind Antonio that he has no money because he's wasted at all. Yet Bessonio shares his plot here that he will recover all of his wealth through marrying Portia. And this in symmetry sentence shows he needs Antonio's help by borrowing some money. Antonio says he can go out and borrow the money he needs using Antonio's name.