The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play written in poetic form by William Shakespeare. Similar to Pyramus and Thisbe, it tells the story of two people who fall in love, but their love is forbidden. In both stories, one of the lovers is thought to have died and the second kills him or herself. The lover left finds his or her dead lover and ends up killing him or herself as well. Shakespeare writes his plays in iambic pentameter and some of the key moments of the play are also in the form of a sonnet. These are poetic structures.
