I was answered in the WordPress Forums. The solution is to pass the entire HTML for the comment_field, like this:
'comment_field' => '<textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="5" maxlength="65525" required="">'. __('Prewritten comment','textdomain').'</textarea>',
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