Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5. A beautiful dream mood is created here, but also an ominous and foreboding one. The banished Romeo is preparing to leave his young wife Juliet after a night of passion. A dream mood is created in lines two and three, as day is personified as "jocund" with the ability to stand "tiptoe," while "night’s candles" is a metaphorical representation for the stars and moon. But the happy mood is shattered by the first and last lines, which speak of envy and dying, foreshadowing the death of Romeo later in the play.