Read the passage. excerpt from Act I, Scene 1, in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Lysander Ay me! For aught tha
t I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. What does Lysander mean by "The course of true love never did run smooth"? Your father is testing us to see if we really love each other. If you truly love me, you wouldn’t be upset now. True lovers always have to overcome problems to be together. Other people’s problems are much worse than ours.
True lovers always have to overcome problems to be together.
In the excerpt, Lysander says that every story he read or heard always had problems for the lovers. He is not speaking directly about the father. He is also not saying anything about her being upset. However, his lines are meant to console her, but not in a way that creates an ultimatum. The last one is also not true because he is not comparing their love as any better or worse than any other people's love. He is simply stating that lovers always have obstacles to face in their relationship.
Words and phrases should not only match in structure, but also in tense. Writers use parallel structure to add clarity to their writing and to make it easier to understand. It also adds value to a writer's overall composition and shows that their writing is structurally and grammatically correct.
