One thing that Shakespeare can teach us is how emotions affect the language a character uses.

Read aloud these lines from the scene in Romeo and Juliet when Juliet has faked her death.

CAPULET - "O child! O child!
my soul, and not my child!
Dead art thou!
Alack! my child is dead;
And with my child my joys are buried."

Here we have 26 words – five are "child" and five are "my".

NURSE - "O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day,
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this:
O woeful day, O woeful day!"

In 44 words we have "O" seven times, "woeful" six times, and "day" ten times.

His lesson is this - Immediate grief makes our speech patterns simple and direct.