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Blank verse a type of poetry that rhymes alternating 10 syllables. Shakespeare includes a lot of blank verse in his plays to give the lines a flow. It allows the reader to somehow rhyme the phrases, being able to read the lines more easily. An example of blank verse in the play, Romeo and Juliet, happens in Act 2 Scene 2. Romeo says, “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and the Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,…” (Pg 971). Shakespeare created the lines that the character says to give the line a rhythm, unstressed to stressed to unstressed, etc. In this manner, the play was written with examples of blank verse to flow.