This is a follow-up to Juliet (1), which was written for a contest to paraphrase three quotes from Shakespeare. Please read that poem to understand the context of this. Juliet would actually say "My name is Juliet, it doesn't have a stutter like Juliet -tt -tte".
That was never going to work in a poem, so I borrowed the name of a dear friend to make it work better. The original poem popped into my head on Christmas eve and prompted me to write this one - as payment for stealing her name.
The first quote rephrased was the same as the first of the original contest. The other two I found elsewhere:
1. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / by any other word would smell as sweet". (Romeo & Juliet)
2. Sonnet 130.
I was originally inspired by this quote; " 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white / Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on" from Twelfth Night. Fine in the context of the poem when just taken as a quote, But as was pointed out by Amtheyst on AllPoetry, in the context of Twelfth Night, Viola was an extremely beautiful woman. I intended to show a young woman whose physical beauty is far more normal, but she is extraordinarily beautiful in her spirit, compassion intelligence. So other than in a very early draft, I never used the word beauty, and I thought the term "charm" was more descriptive because she is "charming" - like Juliet she has magic!
So I changed the reference to my favourite of all Shakespeare’s Sonnets, No. 130, where the Bard does not use false metaphors to describe his love, instead
"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare."
3. Richard II. "I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
Once again, iambic hexameter in respect to the bard's iambic pentameter - he wrote much more succinctly than I ever will.