As a poet, Ovid uses a plethora of rhetorical devices but also symbolism. One of the large symbols in Pyramus and Thisbe are walls.
The one literal wall in lines 55-104 is the wall that separates Pyramus and Thisbe's home. This wall separates them yet brings them together as well. The wall is a physical barrier to them, yet even the lovers acknowledge that it is because of this wall and the split in it that their words and breaths can cross to each other. Irony. :)
A metaphorical wall is their parents' refusal to allow them to marry. It is a clear obstacle towards their love, and in order to cross over it, they decide to run away. However, it seems that running away has only created more obstructions between them, in the form of the lioness - it is safe to assume that things do not bode well for this couple when a lioness enters the picture. She is yet another wall between them.
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