The possibility of rhyme is lost because it bothers in the process of perception. Now, the poet does not want to write a word which rhyme with the previous one because, maybe, that is not the word to express what he really feels. The blank verse gives the poet more freedom to express his feelings and maybe that can represent the freedom which Milton was defending in his time.
Milton used latin syntax which was useful to him to create his own syntax. This use shows that he was influenced by the classical poets but at the same time, it shows that English language was not important yet. As an epic poem, we find a hero (God) who represents the right side, and an antihero (Satan) who represents the evil. The main characters are disobedient, and revolutionary: Adan and Satan are punished because of their rebelliousness. The evil characters are more credible than those who represent the right side.
The character of Satan can represent two kind of different person. On the one hand, Satan can be related to the monarchs who ruled during the 17 th century. From Milton's point of view they were tyrants who were destroying England and they were only worried about getting their own interests:.
"Honour and Empire with revenge enlarg'd,.
by conquering this new world.
So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,.
the tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.".
On the other hand, Satan can be related to Milton himself since, as Satan, he was disobedient and revolutionary. Milton was considered to be an heretic. He denied the Trinity, he was against bishops, he defended divorce, freedom of the press and the regicide .
Satan wants to take revenge on God not by using his force but by using his astuteness. Milton did something similar since he wrote political and religious pamphlets fot the cause of puritanism he advocated, and in some of his works he denounces what he considered that was corrupt in the society he was living.