Every sentence of the epic, measured by the verse lines it spans — explore the whole at a glance, or read book by book.
5,771
Sentences
(5,820 grammatical)
23,811
Verse lines
4.13
Avg lines / sentence
33
Longest sentence
Counts here use the 5,771 First-Edition sentence IDs. 49 of these IDs actually contain a second sentence that begins mid-line, so the grammatical sentence total is 5,820.
View the 49 mid-line occurrences
Distribution
How sentence-length is spread across the poem
Four-line sentences are the most common form; long sentences taper into rarity, with a single 33-line sentence at the far edge.