The website tvtropes.org is a wonderful resource from which we can see the many popular archetypes, trends and stereotypes used and again and again in movies, tv, literature, and even music. Here's the page for Romeo & Juliet. Among the love-related tropes in R&J are:
Dance of Romance Two people dance together and its LOOOOVE from then on.
Bromantic Foil May sometimes drift into the realm of Heterosexual Life Partners. Mercutio to Romeo.
Courtly Love You know. But its a subversion of it.
Emo Teen Shakespeare does indeed love your emo poetry, or at least he knows where you might be coming from.
Runaway Fiance Pretty self-explanatory.
Star Crossed Lovers Ill-fated romantics. Many tropes are named for a particarly well known example. Romeo & Juliet is the namer for this one, predictably.
Together in Death Well, shoot.
Off subject trope: Mercutio falls under the Too Cool to Live trope. According to the site, Shakespeare himself once said he had to kill Mercutio before Mercutio killed him.
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