Romeo and Juliet Prologue Language: The Sonnet

The video tutorial discusses the form and structure of sonnets, a popular poetic form in Shakespeare's time, often used in romance poetry. It explains the typical structure of a sonnet, which includes three four-line stanzas and a rhyming couplet, and describes a typical rhyming scheme. The tutorial also highlights how pronunciation differences over time have affected the rhyming in sonnets, using the example of 'love' and 'remove' which rhymed in Shakespeare's era but not in modern English.

What themes are explored in the lines of the sonnet provided?

How did the pronunciation of words like 'love' and 'remove' differ in Shakespeare's time compared to modern pronunciation?