Pyramus et Thisbe (55-77)

To start, Pyramus and Thisbe has to be seen as a classic work considering it is still remembered and that it's basic plot/scenes was borrowed in William Shakespeare's epic play Romeo and Juliet. Other than that, the poem itself is captivating.
Ovid uses a lot of rhetorical devices and figures of speech while expressing his intended explanation of transformation. The most fascinating, in my opinion, was his onomatopoeia in line 68 and into line 69. "vIdistis amantEs, et vOcis fEcistis". The repetition of 's' very much resembles the secret lovers whispering through the crack. He also uses a rhetorical question: "quid nOn sentit amor?". Not very fascinating but very much true. When you're in love, especially a concealed love, you will definitely notice anything that would allow your love to not be as confined. And lastly, in the beginning of the poem, the very first lines in fact, he uses chiasmus. "iuvenum pulcherrimus alter...altera...praelAta puellIs". What I think is interesting here, specifically, is not only his use of chiasmus but that it almost resembles Pyramus on one side of the wall and Thisbe on the other, "iuvenum" is on the far left(in its order) while "puellIs" is on the far right. When you look at the two lines together, it really does appear that one is on one side and the other is on the other side.