Take 4: Taming of the Shrew

Petruchio: 

I pray you do. I'll attend her here -- 

(all but Petruchio exit.)

And woo her with some spirit when she comes! 

Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain

She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.

Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear

As morning roses newly washed with dew. 

Say she be mute and will not speak a word,

Then I'll commend her volubility

And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

If she do bid me stay by her a week.

If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day

When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.

But here she comes--and now, Petruchio, speak.   (act 2. scene 1. pg 87)

This passage is significant because it is written in iambic pentameter with ten syllables in each line. This means that Petruchio is speaking in a courtly manner, as opposed to having a more relaxed conversation. This passage is also a soliloquy because Petruchio is thinking aloud with the audience listening. Other characters in the play are not meant to hear what he is saying. Shakespeare also enters multiple metaphors in this passage to describe Katherine. He writes "She sings as sweetly as a nightingale," and "She looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew." Petruchio thinks that these metaphors and kings words will woo Katherine into spending her life with him.