What is the meter in Romeo and Juliet's Prologue?

Answer 1

A prologue is an introduction to a play which tells the listener/viewer what the play is about, here is the prologue for Romeo and Juliet, it is an iambic pentameter (14 lines of 10 syllables each in an ABAB pattern until the last 2 lines which are a rhyming couplet).

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

And civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take there life;

Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parent's rage,

Which but their children's end nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Answer 2

Pick a line, any line, which is written in verse (each line starts with a capital).