The blank verse, i.e., the unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, is used throughout the epic and is characterized by its employment of long and involved sentences, which run on many lines with a variety of pauses, and achieving sometimes an oratorical and sometimes an elaborately logical effect. This richness of poetical style has frequently been called “Miltonic style”. Milton’s style is also commonly said to be Latinate. That is, instead of using the common English sentence pattern of subject-verb-object order, Milton uses more elaborate patterns drawn from Latin.