If that requirement seems demanding, Shakespeare's sonnets are also written in iambic pentameter.

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Yes, this, too, is an utterly regular iambic pentameter line: unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, five in a row.

是的，这是个典型的抑扬格五步格诗：,不重读的音节后面一个重读的音，五个成一行。

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Up to this point in literary history, only verse written for the theater had been written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, in blank verse.

文学发展到那时候，只有为戏剧写的诗,才会用不押韵的抑扬格五音步，即无韵诗。

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The primary metrical pattern in Frost is the primary metrical pattern in English poetry, which is to say blank verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter.

弗罗斯特基本的诗歌韵律,是英国诗歌的基本韵律，也就是无韵诗或不押韵的五音部抑扬格。

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And if you repeat them five times, you have pentameter.

如果你重复五遍，会得到五步格诗。

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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And yet, it's also important for reading Pound and for reading Eliot and for reading Moore, who sound the way they do partly because they make a point of not writing pentameter, the meter that Frost often, but not always, chooses.

也对于阅读庞德和,艾略特，莫尔的诗歌很重要，他们听起来是做到了一部分,因为它们提议不要写五音部格诗，这种形式弗罗斯特很常用，但不是总用到。

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