Alexander Blok: A Study in Rhythm and Metre

3-stress poems 3rd foot 4-foot iamb 4-foot line 4-stress abab rhyme scheme acatalectic accentual verse all-masculine endings amphibrachic anacrusis anapaestic arsis basically Belyj Blok Blok's verse bylina caesura combined substitution compensatory pause couplet dactylic endings disyllabic anacrusis DMDM dol'niki duple-time Egerton Smith ending-patterns endings and abab enjambement examples feet per line feminine endings FMFM endings follows Group iambic line iambic verse ictus incidence instances intensy masculine endings metre metrical Metrists MFFM MFMF MMMM number of feet occur pattern poets prosody Puškin pyrrhic quatrain rhythm rhythmical Russian Versification scansion Šengeli spondaic spondee stanzas stress syllable syllabo-tonic tercets thesis tonic triple-time verse trisyllabic trochaic trochee Unbegaun unstressed vide infra vide supra VIII words Žirmunskij безъ былъ Вотъ все въ день Изд изъ какъ къ меня мнѣ мой Мы надъ ночь нѣтъ онъ отъ подъ сердце съ Такъ Тамъ твой тебя Ты