metrics 71 Milton xvi, 44 as lyric epic 30 poetry as text 70 “On Homer’s Poetry” 64 “On Virgil” 64 Ossianic prose 84 Poetical Sketches xiii “Proverbs of Hell, ” on futurity 257 “The Sick Rose, ” meter 71 Songs of Experience 61, 70, 244 Songs of Innocence xiii, 61, 70 Songs of Innocence and of Experience xiv, 251 style 88–90 on thinking, knowing, and execution 105 on thinking in verse 98 Tiriel 65 “To the Public, ” on print 252 use of accentual meter 70 use of poetry as text 70