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

So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood
A while as mute, confounded what to say,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdXeedcfcgdadgacdahiXajhdkcldalaahcdamXXnccjcagdcoapXadaakldqnoXlajelldichaibddkolaaaaXcglhqgmedljXcapdXXcrdldalcdpaXacacgcXkkoXlXldXakXpdklXlpsgXjkXlccdapaakklmadaaccgecXbatXdXXjaalXXckkkmecccalelgXXckhhlcdajaeelachggaccamabaaocddirXcaorjXcdXjkeXpbcaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 443,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 0111010101 1001100101 00110010101 1101010101 01010111100 10111100101 1101110111 1100110111 01111100111 0100110101 1111001101 1101010100 10110110001 110111011 0100111101 110100010111 0101011101 1101110101 0101011101 11010100111 0101011101 01010010001 1101011110 01110000001 1101010101 01010101101 1001110101 1101110111 110011011010 1011110101 0101010111 1101010101 10011100111 01010011101 0101101011 1010101001 1101010101 1101110101 0111000101 0101111111 100111111100 01110101100 10101011011 110011100001 1101111100 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 01010010101 1101111101 1111011111 11111111010 1101001101 0101111011 0100100011100 0111010000 00100010101 1111010101 00110110001 10101010101 01111001110 0101010101 0101011001 10010111011 11010111010 1111111101 10110101111 11001100100 011100111001 11110100001 1101110101 1101011101 11010111110 1111110101 10010100101 1101010101 1111001101 10110100011 11010010101 1101110101 110100110100 1001011101 10010101010 11001010011 1001010101 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1001010111 0101010101 11011101111 01010011111 0101111111 1101010011 0011010101 11011101100 101110110111 10111110110 11010011110 010010100101 10010100111 1111010101 1101010101 110100001001 1100010101 10011011101 0111010001 1101000101 1001010011 1101010011 1101011111 1011110101 1101010011 1101010100 0101111101 1000010111 1100000101 110110101 0101110101 11100111001 0110010011 1000100100 1001011101 11010011101 1110011101 11001000101 000100101011 1101110101 001101101001 0100110101 01010010101 110100001 1101011101 0100110100 1101111111 01010110100 1100111101 1101110101 01110111110 1111110100 0101100111 0101110101 0111011111 10110101011 01010001010 010000101 1100001001 01001101001 01000101001 0100100101 0100010010 1100110101 11111100101 110100100101 01010110111 0111010101 1101011111 1001011101 1001100100010 0101010010 0101011101 0111111101 1111111101 0101011001 11011011000 1101001001 1101111101 11000101010 0110010101 01001000101 0100010100 0101110101 1101010100 11110011100 1110011101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 20079
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3306
  • Amount of lines: 443
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, thy, all, years, for, they, be, of, by, i, seek, glory, or, he, can, best, worse, my, reign, with, there, in, from are repeated.

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

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

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