SOME FEATURES OF THE DISTICH AS A STROPHIC UNIT IN THE UKRAINIAN SYLLABIC VERSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Cover Image

ПРО ОКРЕМІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ДИСТИХА ЯК СТРОФИ В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ СИЛАБІЧНОМУ ВІРШІ ХVІІІ СТОЛІТТЯ
SOME FEATURES OF THE DISTICH AS A STROPHIC UNIT IN THE UKRAINIAN SYLLABIC VERSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Author(s): Valentyn Maltsev
Subject(s): Poetry, Ukrainian Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, 18th Century
Published by: Видавництво ВДНЗ України « Буковинський державний медичний університет »
Keywords: Stanza; strophsc unit; astrophic verse; distich; rhyming; rhyme; clause; caesura;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article. The article outlines the problem of the place of the distich as a strophic unit in the binary opposition ―strophic – astrophic verse, as well as considers several options for diversification from a clear two-verse structure with a constant double rhyme. Research methods: formal-statistical, comparative and descriptive. Scientific novelty. Analysis of the material and poetic research allows us to conclude that there is every reason to interpret the vast majority of poetic texts with a continuous double rhyme as strophic two-verse derivations. At the same time, in such texts can be noticed different ways of enrichment, diversification of such a simple strophic structure. Conclusions. There are cases of ―division of the two-verses into replicas of two different characters, which does not destroy the strophic structure in dramatic works with a two-verse strophic organization. Somewhat blur this structure of the text, in which occasionally appears ―tercet and larger pieces of text per rhyme (either due to neglect and the appearance of ―extra, additional line, the clause of which forms a triple rhyme with the clauses of the neighboring distich, or deliberately creating a kind of aesthetic effect ―stringing additional rhyming clauses). It was also quite common practice to introduce additional regular internal rhymes (mostly in the caesura position), which significantly enrich the sound. Perspectives for further research of the stanza level of ancient Ukrainian syllabics are seen in a detailed study of the stanza of syllabic verse, including the context of its correlation with intonation and semantic division, as well as in the attraction of various strophic forms to certain syllabic proportions.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 64-69
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Ukrainian