FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JOHN MILTON
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Rhymed
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Unrhymed
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In a prefatory note to the poem, Milton explains that he has chosen to write Paradise Lost in what he calls “English heroic verse without rhyme” – that is, in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Paradise Lost is written in blank verse, or unrhymed iambic pentameter. This style lends structure and precision to the verse-providing exactly ten syllables per line-while also allowing Milton to experiment with his verse, without the constraints of rhyme.
Detailed explanation-3: -Blank verse, the basic pattern of language in Shakespeare’s plays, is (in its regular form) a verse line of ten syllables with five stresses and no rhyme (hence “blank"). It was first used in England by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey* in his translation of the Æneid (c. 1554).
Detailed explanation-4: -Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.
Detailed explanation-5: -What Is a Blank Verse Poem? Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter-almost always iambic pentameter-but that does not rhyme. When a poem is written in iambic pentameter, it means each line contains five iambs-two syllable pairs in which the second syllable is emphasized.