Poetic dimensions and their meaning. Yamb, trochea and others ...

Russia is a country rich in poets. Creative people were born and written in it at all times, some of them received recognition in life, someone - only after death, someone and remained unknown ... it's not so important. More importantly, they all worked in the name of beauty.

Probably, in the depths of the soul, every person is at least a bit, but a poet. Few people in their entire lives did not rhyme at least a couple of lines. But how much do we all know about the poetics of our native language? Unfortunately no. Even people who write seriously, every day, rarely study the theory of poetry, confining themselves to knowledge of grammar and stylistics, and in vain - after all, the theory is very interesting.

So, in the poetics of the Russian language Lomonosov and Trediakovsky, syllabo-tonic versification was introduced. If you disassemble its basics briefly, then we can say that the syllabic system of versification implies the presence of rhyme, and the tonic gives much importance to the number and order of stresses in the line.

That is why in Russian poetry there are almost no white verses and there are poetic dimensions.

With three elementary verse sizes we all get acquainted at school - iambic, trochee and amphibrachia are familiar to everyone who graduated from nine classes. Of course, this is not all the existing verse sizes, but they are the most popular.

All such dimensions are divided into groups depending on the order of alternation of unstressed and stressed syllables. So, there are two-syllable, three-syllable, four- and five-syllable verse sizes.

Isob and trochee are two-syllable. They are very simple. If in the poetic line the stress falls on the first (or on each odd) syllable - the work is written in a poetic dimension called the trochee. Iamb is distinguished by an accent on the second or every even syllable.

Two-syllable sizes are extremely common due to its simplicity and rhythm. However, we must not forget that at about the same time three, and not two, sizes are studied-iambic, trochee and amphibrachium.

Amphibrachium belongs to a group of three-syllable sizes, including, in addition, two more - anapest and dactyl. They are no less popular than two-syllables, and they allow you to create more complex works.

As you can understand from the title, in three-syllabic sizes, three syllables are singled out, of which only one is percussive. For amphibrachey this is the second syllable, for dactyl, the first, and for anapaste, the last, third. It is clear that at the beginning of studying the dimensions it is difficult to remember them, but you can simplify your task by conducting a chain of associations. Amphibrachium - stress on the second syllable - is similar to iambic. Khorey is close to dactyl - under stress the first syllable. An anapeste is not like anything, so it's the last, like the stressed syllable in it.

In order to remember all these five verse sizes - iambic, trochee, dactyl, amphibrachia and anapeste - it would be more interesting, you can study the work of the famous Russian poets who used them. And by reading the creations of these great people you can not only enjoy and improve your speech, but also learn how to write good poetry yourself.

So, amphibrachia and dactyl can be found in Lermontov's work. These dimensions are especially pronounced in his poems "Clouds" and "In the north, the wild is alone".

As lovers of Russian classics could notice, Pushkin is characterized by shorter and simpler lines of verse. The most commonly used sizes are iambic, trochee.

Anapeste is also used by Alexander Blok. A striking example is his famous work "To the Muse".

Of course, we must not forget about four- and five-syllable verse sizes. The first are the peons - in them, the shock is only one syllable of four, depending on the location of which to the name of the size is added a numeral (N1, 2, 3, 4).

To five-syllable sizes are five pentons (one stressed syllable for four unstressed ones), whose number is determined in the same way as in peonies.