This is an analysis of the poem Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book that begins with:

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 641,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 14599
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2435
  • Amount of lines: 640
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; his, eve, of, and, him, to, i, give, thee, by, me, with, thou, not, in, he, or, our, some, as, it, thy, god, stand are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, from, aim, and, on, to, that, what, thy are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eve, head, morn are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase old connects the lines.

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