Act Four Quote

"Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." - Capulet (4.5.28-29)

After his daughter's death, Capulet was in utter shock. He uses a metaphor of frost on a flower, death being the frost and Juliet as the flower. Obviously the frost would either ruin or kill the flower and that is exactly what happened to Juliet. He goes on to say what a shame for his daughter to die on what was in his opinion to be one of the happiest days of her life, but the reader knows otherwise. The reader also knows that Juliet is not actually dead and so there is dramatic irony there.