Paradise Regained Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHGGIJGKLMNBOGG GPGQRSGTGUOMVGWXGNYZ GGTGYA2B2C2GD2E2F2GE 2MGG2H2GGI2TYGJ2K2TE 2L2PM2N2B2I2O2GE2P2Q 2TR2GGG I2MMGS2T2U2WV2GGW2L2 D2TGGX2Y2Z2GA3B3C2C3 YD3GGE3GF3GG3H3GGI3G GGGGTGD2J3GQMGH2O2GM MK3H2L3TGM3PGMGN3A2G MHO3P3K3K3N3Q3K3MK3M MMK3GGGGK3K3THE FIRST BOOK | A |
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I WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung | B |
By one man's disobedience lost now sing | C |
Recovered Paradise to all mankind | D |
By one man's firm obedience fully tried | E |
Through all temptation and the Tempter foiled | F |
In all his wiles defeated and repulsed | G |
And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness | H |
Thou Spirit who led'st this glorious Eremite | G |
Into the desert his victorious field | G |
Against the spiritual foe and brought'st him thence | I |
By proof the undoubted Son of God inspire | J |
As thou art wont my prompted song else mute | G |
And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds | K |
With prosperous wing full summed to tell of deeds | L |
Above heroic though in secret done | M |
And unrecorded left through many an age | N |
Worthy to have not remained so long unsung | B |
Now had the great Proclaimer with a voice | O |
More awful than the sound of trumpet cried | G |
Repentance and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand | G |
To all baptized To his great baptism flocked | G |
With awe the regions round and with them came | P |
From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemed | G |
To the flood Jordan came as then obscure | Q |
Unmarked unknown But him the Baptist soon | R |
Descried divinely warned and witness bore | S |
As to his worthier and would have resigned | G |
To him his heavenly office Nor was long | T |
His witness unconfirmed on him baptized | G |
Heaven opened and in likeness of a Dove | U |
The Spirit descended while the Father's voice | O |
From Heaven pronounced him his beloved Son | M |
That heard the Adversary who roving still | V |
About the world at that assembly famed | G |
Would not be last and with the voice divine | W |
Nigh thunder struck the exalted man to whom | X |
Such high attest was given a while surveyed | G |
With wonder then with envy fraught and rage | N |
Flies to his place nor rests but in mid air | Y |
To council summons all his mighty Peers | Z |
Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved | G |
A gloomy consistory and them amidst | G |
With looks aghast and sad he thus bespake | T |
O ancient Powers of Air and this wide World | G |
For much more willingly I mention Air | Y |
This our old conquest than remember Hell | A2 |
Our hated habitation well ye know | B2 |
How many ages as the years of men | C2 |
This Universe we have possessed and ruled | G |
In manner at our will the affairs of Earth | D2 |
Since Adam and his facile consort Eve | E2 |
Lost Paradise deceived by me though since | F2 |
With dread attending when that fatal wound | G |
Shall be inflicted by the seed of Eve | E2 |
Upon my head Long the decrees of Heaven | M |
Delay for longest time to Him is short | G |
And now too soon for us the circling hours | G2 |
This dreaded time have compassed wherein we | H2 |
Must bide the stroke of that long threatened wound | G |
At least if so we can and by the head | G |
Broken be not intended all our power | I2 |
To be infringed our freedom and our being | T |
In this fair empire won of Earth and Air | Y |
For this ill news I bring The Woman's Seed | G |
Destined to this is late of woman born | J2 |
His birth to our just fear gave no small cause | K2 |
But his growth now to youth's full flower displaying | T |
All virtue grace and wisdom to achieve | E2 |
Things highest greatest multiplies my fear | L2 |
Before him a great Prophet to proclaim | P |
His coming is sent harbinger who all | M2 |
Invites and in the consecrated stream | N2 |
Pretends to wash off sin and fit them so | B2 |
Purified to receive him pure or rather | I2 |
To do him honour as their King All come | O2 |
And he himself among them was baptized | G |
Not thence to be more pure but to receive | E2 |
The testimony of Heaven that who he is | P2 |
Thenceforth the nations may not doubt I saw | Q2 |
The Prophet do him reverence on him rising | T |
Out of the water Heaven above the clouds | R2 |
Unfold her crystal doors thence on his head | G |
A perfet Dove descend whate'er it meant | G |
And out of Heaven the sovraign voice I heard | G |
'This is my Son beloved in him am pleased ' | - |
His mother than is mortal but his Sire | I2 |
He who obtains the monarchy of Heaven | M |
And what will He not do to advance his Son | M |
His first begot we know and sore have felt | G |
When his fierce thunder drove us to the Deep | S2 |
Who this is we must learn for Man he seems | T2 |
In all his lineaments though in his face | U2 |
The glimpses of his Father's glory shine | W |
Ye see our danger on the utmost edge | V2 |
Of hazard which admits no long debate | G |
But must with something sudden be opposed | G |
Not force but well couched fraud well woven snares | W2 |
Ere in the head of nations he appear | L2 |
Their king their leader and supreme on Earth | D2 |
I when no other durst sole undertook | T |
The dismal expedition to find out | G |
And ruin Adam and the exploit performed | G |
Successfully a calmer voyage now | X2 |
Will waft me and the way found prosperous once | Y2 |
Induces best to hope of like success | Z2 |
He ended and his words impression left | G |
Of much amazement to the infernal crew | A3 |
Distracted and surprised with deep dismay | B3 |
At these sad tidings But no time was then | C2 |
For long indulgence to their fears or grief | C3 |
Unanimous they all commit the care | Y |
And management of this man enterprise | D3 |
To him their great Dictator whose attempt | G |
At first against mankind so well had thrived | G |
In Adam's overthrow and led their march | E3 |
From Hell's deep vaulted den to dwell in light | G |
Regents and potentates and kings yea gods | F3 |
Of many a pleasant realm and province wide | G |
So to the coast of Jordan he directs | G3 |
His easy steps girded with snaky wiles | H3 |
Where he might likeliest find this new declared | G |
This man of men attested Son of God | G |
Temptation and all guile on him to try | I3 |
So to subvert whom he suspected raised | G |
To end his reign on Earth so long enjoyed | G |
But contrary unweeting he fulfilled | G |
The purposed counsel pre ordained and fixed | G |
Of the Most High who in full frequence bright | G |
Of Angels thus to Gabriel smiling spake | T |
Gabriel this day by proof thou shalt behold | G |
Thou and all Angels conversant on Earth | D2 |
With Man or men's affairs how I begin | J3 |
To verify that solemn message late | G |
On which I sent thee to the Virgin pure | Q |
In Galilee that she should bear a son | M |
Great in renown and called the Son of God | G |
Then told'st her doubting how these things could be | H2 |
To her a virgin that on her should come | O2 |
The Holy Ghost and the power of the Highest | G |
O'ershadow her This Man born and now upgrown | M |
To shew him worthy of his birth divine | M |
And high prediction henceforth I expose | K3 |
To Satan let him tempt and now assay | H2 |
His utmost subtlety because he boasts | L3 |
And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng | T |
Of his Apostasy He might have learnt | G |
Less overweening since he failed in Job | M3 |
Whose constant perseverance overcame | P |
Whate'er his cruel malice could invent | G |
He now shall know I can produce a man | M |
Of female seed far abler to resist | G |
All his solicitations and at length | N3 |
All his vast force and drive him back to Hell | A2 |
Winning by conquest what the first man lost | G |
By fallacy surprised But first I mean | M |
To exercise him in the Wilderness | H |
There he shall first lay down the rudiments | O3 |
Of his great warfare ere I send him forth | P3 |
To conquer Sin and Death the two grand foes | K3 |
By humiliation and strong sufferance | K3 |
His weakness shall o'ercome Satanic strength | N3 |
And all the world and mass of sinful flesh | Q3 |
That all the Angels and aethereal Powers | K3 |
They now and men hereafter may discern | M |
From what consummate virtue I have chose | K3 |
This perfet man by merit called my Son | M |
To earn salvation for the sons of men | M |
So spake the Eternal Father and all Heaven | M |
Admiring stood a space then into hymns | K3 |
Burst forth and in celestial measures moved | G |
Circling the throne and singing while the hand | G |
Sung with the voice and this the argument | G |
Victory and triumph to the Son of God | G |
Now entering his great duel not of arms | K3 |
But to vanquish by wisdom hellish wiles | K3 |
John Milton
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