没有开头或许是会更糟。

No opening could possibly be worse.

youdao

没有开头，没有结尾。

There is no beginning, no end.

youdao

岁月是一首歌，一首哀怨、凄婉的歌，一首没有开头和结尾的歌。

Years is a song, a plaintive, the songs, there is no one at the beginning and end of the song.

youdao

I think the answer may involve the possibility that at the beginning of the poem, there simply wasn't a clear distinction between the poet and the speaker.

答案可能包括了,在诗歌的开头,根本就没有一个清晰的区分的可能性。

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There wasn't an uncouth swain at the beginning.

开头并没有一个粗鄙的年轻人。

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