Milton wrote his epic in lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter or what we call, and what Milton would have called, blank verse.

弥尔顿的史诗由不押韵的抑扬格五音步诗句写成,我们，还有弥尔顿都称其为无韵诗。

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Now most rhymed poems in Milton's day were end-stopped lines of verse.

弥尔顿时期的大部分押韵诗都使用孤联诗句。

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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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