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Why Does Paradise Lost Not Rhyme? [Solved]

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. And Milton says that he’s done so because Homer and Virgil wrote their epics in unrhymed Greek and Latin, respectively.

Milton’s Paradise Lost (English Literature)

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Paradise Lost Book1 | Lines 1-26 | Invocation | Lecture 4

Why is the Invocation, or the first 26 lines of

Paradise Lost - Shallow Seasons (Live At The Longhorn 1993)

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