Answer: Pyramus's long speech slows the pace to prolong suspense.
Read the excerpt from Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe".And when he had foundthe bloodstained shawl he cried: "Now this same nightwill see two lovers lose their lives: she wasthe one more worthy of long life: it's Iwho bear the guilt for this. O my poor girl it's I who led you to your death;...