But in the United States, the main idea of each paragraph should be in the first sentence.

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As in Sonnet Seven, Milton writes the first verse paragraph of this great poem, Lycidas -- the first fourteen lines - in essentially the form of a sonnet.

如同《十四行诗第七首》，弥尔顿写《利西达斯》,这首伟大的诗的开头--头14行时,-用的还是十四行诗的形式。

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