Midnite, thank you for the instructions on quoting from more than one post.
(You'll note I DIDN'T quote/recopy your entire response directly above this in this post!
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I did transcribe the opening scene between Joshua and Naomi from the episode where she informs him about Sarah's death. However, I'm on a public computer with a 15-minute time limit, so I'm not able to transcribe the dialogue now. Upon viewing the scene again, I noticed that it was much more dialogue between the two characters than I had thought (rather than a "soliloquy" by Naomi).
However, I do feel that my impression was correct about the poetic language in this scene. It was the heightened language of tragedy. Perhaps that was introduced in this scene because it is the most tragic event yet to befall the Collins family.
In particular, Naomi's concluding line of the scene scans as iambic pentameter, the meter used by Shakespeare. I'm unable to reproduce scansion marks here, but will use CAPS instead of the accent.
She's GONE -- / SAR-ah / -- our LIT- / -tle GIRL / is DEAD
(with the substitution of a trochee [?] in the second foot.
Many of Joshua's lines also scan in perfect iambic form.
(No time to reproduce here)
I believe the dialogue in this scene was deliberately crafted to evoke this heightened sense of drama, and that Bennett and Edmonds were conscious of it.