ЗІ СПОСТЕРЕЖЕНЬ НАД СТРОФІКОЮ ТА РИМУВАННЯМ ФЕОФАНА ПРОКОПОВИЧА
FROM THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE STROPHICS AND RHYMING

Summary/Abstract: Methods of research: formal, which is often based on the use of statistics, quantitative material processing, comparative and historical. Scientific novelty. For the first time systematic representation of the main features of the stanza and rhyming by Pheophan Procopovych's poetry. Conclusions. The idea of monotony or even the primitiveness of the syllabic poem of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries has been long established in Ukrainian literary criticism. First of all, such superficial judgments concerned stanzas and rhymes of the Ukrainian syllabic, which was treated as a form with a double-edged structure and a constant pair of female rhymes. Preceding analysis showed that in the first half of the eighteenth century Ph. Prokopoviyh had substantially diversified the stanza of the Ukrainian syllabic verse. In addition to traditional and two-storied strophic compounds that are widely used in syllabic poetry, the poet also referred to the form of a terzetto for one rhyme with the AAA rhyme scheme ("Behind the pock-marked Grave"), in several texts - to the form of a catenary with cross-rhyming of ABAB ("The crying of shepherds in protracted grief" etc.), as well as stanzas for six (AABCCB), seven (AABBCCB) and eight (AbAbCCХx) rows. In addition, an octave with a classical version of this stanza, with a metric structure and a rhythmic pattern has become one of the variants. There is also one text with an unequal structure, consisting of distiches, terzetto and quatrains in the poet's work. In one of the texts ("Secular song") there are regular internal rhymes in the idle rows. The most widespread size of the Ukrainian syllabic – the 13 -syllable verse – is realized exclusively in the two-verse strophic form. At the same time, the second most commonly used "book" size is the 11 syllabic, on the contrary, is presented in various stanza form: distiches, quatrains with cross rhymes ABAB and octaves. The ditches, cross-rhymes quatrains, five-verse and seven-verse were found in strophic syllabic.

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