在《玫瑰传奇》中他首次将八音节对偶句引入英语。

In the Romaunt of the Rose, he first introduced to the English the octosyllabic couplet.

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Feet, of course, has a lot of meanings, and Milton's poetic feet, the material of the verse written in six and eight and ten syllables in this poem, are also in 1634 printless -- they're unpublished.

双脚，当然有很多意义，而弥尔顿富有诗意的双脚,这首六，八，十音节的诗，在1634年也是不留痕迹的--因为那时候还没有出版。

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