What letter is alliterated or repeated in Lines 417-21 of PARADISE LOST: BOOK VII, BOOK XII?
b
c
f
g

f

Explanation:

In the lines 417 to 421, the word f is alliterated several times in the verse written in iambic pentameter giving it a rhyming feet and allowing the words with f to stand out as important in the lines.

The words that alliterate are

fens

forth

feathered

fledged

The words do not have to be adjacent to each other spatially but metrically which these words do, albeit not being next to each other. Hence they are in alliteration.

ethos, logos, and pathos.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.