Romeo begins in straightforward iambic pentameter, with stresses regularly punctuating every other syllable. As light appears at Juliet's window above, Romeo begins his metaphoric comparison of Juliet to the sunrise.
Gotha (German: [ËÉ¡oËtaË]) is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, located 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of Erfurt and 25 km (16 miles) east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000.
The ancient city of Edessa was a city-state situated between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in the upper Mesopotamian Fertile Crescent. It was long an important trading center on the Silk Road between China and India in the East and the Mediterranean basin area of the Roman Empire.