Did you have to identify it as part of the test? I think Milton chose to elide when it suited him, basically. He consciously chose blank verse as a "suitable" metre for his epic, equivalent to Virgil's dactylic hexameters. (Oh how I hated scanning those when I did Latin at school!)
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