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Answer» To crows . - Romeo is comparing Juliet to a sacred being.
- Her residence is, therefore, a shrine to her. The suggestion is that she is some kind of saint, a being far beyond the reaches of ordinary humans.
- He therefore humbly beseeches her to allow him penitence for having "profaned" (i.e. desecrated) this place consecrated to her.
Romeo glorifies Juliet's beauty by comparing her appearance to objects and abstract concepts observable in nature. In his soliloquy, Romeo compares Juliet to firelight, a star or a planet in the night sky, and a dove in a flock of crows.
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