This is an analysis of the poem On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost that begins with:

When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold,
In slender Book his vast Design unfold,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceeaaffaaXXbbggeeccccffccggccddaaXceeggeeaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1110010111 0101010101 0101110101 0101001001 1111010100 1101100001 111111111 0101010111 11010010101 01100000101 1111110101 1101000101 1111110111 1111110101 1110011101 111111101 1001110011 1011111101 11010100101 1111010110 1101010101 0101110001 1011010101 11001101001 1111011101 0111000101 1111111101 1111010101 1111011101 1001110011 1100111111 1001010001 1101110011 1001110100 1101110111 1101110011 1010111101 0111110111 0110110111 1101110111 1111010101 1101010101 1111100010 010101101 1111110001 01001011101 1011110111 11011100101 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1111011101 1101011101 0101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 417
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, so, of are repeated.

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  • summary of On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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