It is said that he turned out 1,000 lines of verse in a day.
"Sometimes people don't know what they're getting into when they ask me to quote a few lines of verse."
For example, he defined a poet as a person who has written 1,000 or more lines of verse.
Last verse line 4 some versions leave out the word "safely"
According to one source the epic extended to 7,000 lines of verse.
Another variant given here was to change verse 2 line 3 at eve?
Katie bar the door must have been a refrain or a line of verse.
This trip resulted in 49 poems and almost 3,000 new lines of verse.
A line of verse normally contains more than one colon.
Milton's skill in writing lines of blank verse is at its best here.