For most readers in Milton's time, rhyme was actually constitutive of poetry, and Milton's lines of unrhymed verse here may well have not seemed poetry at all. It was shocking.

对大部分弥尔顿时期的读者来说，押韵是,诗歌的组成部分，弥尔顿这不押韵的诗句,很可能看起来根本不是诗，它令人震惊。

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