‘Poems seemed to be useless for me’: peculiarities of the verse form of S.E. Neldikhen’s ‘Holiday (Ilya Radalyet)’ poem-novel

Ryabova Mariya V.

Verse form of S.E. Neldikhen’s ‘Holiday (Ilya Radalyet)’ poem-novel is analyzed in the article. The research is focused on the peculiarities of vers libre chapters and those fragments of the work that are organized according to the laws of syllabic-accentual and accentual versification. Individual peculiarities of a long stanza are determined, which is preferred by the author in the form of free verse. Special role of the work’s rhythmic structure is defined.

Keywords:S.E. Neldikhen, poem-novel, ‘Holiday (Ilya Radalyet)’, verse form, vers libre, syllabic-accentual verse, verse ‘secondary signs’.