Idiom I think . It should be at least
It was a shock to the Elizabethan audience; everyone had arranged marriages and high class children obeyed their parents, but this play ruptures the rules
That is a metaphor, for it is a direct comparison to to unlike things (world as a stage, men and women as players), without using "like" or "as."
Often, I lie awake at night
At night, I ponder
I lay awake and gaze upon the stars
Counting sheep does not help me fall asleep
The clock ticks, but I lie awake
Until the rays of the morning sun hit my face
I changed this poem by adding more detail to the original lines. Since I did this, you can understand what is going on in the poem better.
