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

Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained
At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 486,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1100010111 1111110101 1001010101 11110100101 101110110001 1011010101 010101011100 1101111101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010111 0111110101 1101110111 1010011101 10110111001 11010110101 1111110101 111010111 10100000101 01001101101 1001111101 1010111000 1010000101 1101010101 11011101001 1100110101 1001010101 110101111000 10001110101 100111101110 0101001111 0100110111 0101010111 11110100011 01010100100 1101111101 0001001101 1100111100 1110101101 1001010101 110101010 1101010101 01010011101 11001111001 1101010101 1101011100 1101110011 111111111000 10010101011 1011010111 0101011101 1101001111 1101001011 10011110100 1100111111 11111111100 11101111101 0111011110 1001010111 10010100101 1111010011 0101110111 1001111111 11011101110 10110111101 0101011101 11010001101 1101011101 1111000101 0101010111 0101011101 1001010111 0011010111 0100110101 10010101001 0111011101 0101010101 0101010100 1011010001 1010010100 10010010111 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 11011100101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 22090
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3683
  • Amount of lines: 486
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, with, so, to, thy, her, my, i, of, him, in, or, how, he, thou, that, what are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, in, of are repeated.

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  • summary of Paradise Regained: The Second Book;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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