It's rhymed iambic tetrameter, four beats per line, with some variations.

这是首押韵的短长体四音部句，一行四音，也有些变化。

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So Saint Peter concludes with -- it goes on, and he concludes with a couplet that is as terrifying in its threat of finality as it is for me utterly baffling in its significance.

因此圣彼得以一句如同这首诗结尾的威胁般,可怕的对句作了总结,我很难读出这句话的重要性。

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That brings us back to the opening, the descent to the Piraeus.

这将我们带回到开头首句，南降皮里亚斯。

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Moore, who revised her poems, just the same way she ended up binding her hair, republished this poem eventually in short form, very short, where three pages were reduced to two sentences.

穆尔，以和梳理她的发型的相同方式，将这首诗进行了改编，最终以极为简短的形式重新发表了这首诗，三张纸的诗被删到只剩下两句。

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So, we start out here with an opening phrase.

那么,我们从首句开始

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So, I think that kind of thing. You should read that poem : Student: I like the line where it's if you can be in a crowd but not lose the common touch -that's my favorite line Mr. Carl Icahn: That's right. If you can walk in a crowd and still not lose the--if you can walk with kings and not lose the common touch.

所以为这些事情你应该读读那首诗,学生：我喜欢这句,如果你跟村夫交谈而不变谦虚之,态，亦或与王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜,那是我最喜欢的一句,卡尔·伊坎先生：对，是的，如果你可以和农夫交谈而,不变--亦或与王侯散步,而不露谄媚之颜。

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Does anyone know here ? the opening line of the Iliad?

有人知道,《伊利亚德》的首句吗？

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Homer's Iliad does anyone know the first line?

荷马的《伊利亚德》，有人知道该书的首句吗？

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I suggest that we can hear echoes of that same youthful competitiveness in Milton's first major poem in these opening lines, in the beginning of the great epic of Milton's maturity.

在失乐园的开头几句,在弥尔顿成熟后所写的这首伟大史诗的开头，我们还可以看到这同样的他年轻时的雄心。

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So, what happens here is this opening phrase, that we'll call A-- musicians like to label stuff just with alphabetical labels to keep it simple.

那么,首句这里,我们称作A,音乐家喜欢用字母,来做标记,这样比较简单

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