Correct Answer - Option 2 : Blank verse
The correct answer is 'Blank verse'.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.
- An epic poem is a lengthy, narrative work of poetry. These long poems typically detail extraordinary feats and adventures of characters from a distant past.
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Blank verse is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.
- It has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line (pentameter); where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones, five of which are stressed but do not rhyme.
From the above, it is clear that Paradise Lost is written in blank verse.
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Iambic Pentameter: Iambic pentameter is a rhythm structure, used most commonly in poetry, that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five.
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Heroic Couplet: A heroic couple consists of two rhyming lines of poetry (a couplet) written in iambic pentameter (a ten-beat line with alternating unstressed and stressed syllables); the lines should be closed (a pause at the end of each line) and focus on a serious subject matter (heroic).
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Terza Rima: An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambic pentameter, that rhyme aba bcb cdc etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy.
