Syllabo-tonic character is characteristic of Russian versification. For your information, for the tonic system, the number of stresses in the line plays the leading role, while the syllabic is based solely on rhyme. The verse size is calculated based on the alternation of stressed syllables with unstressed ones.
Introductory part
Feet are groups of syllables of one line. The number of syllables in a verse is an indicator for determining the size. And the number of stops themselves indicates how much the stop size is in front of you.
Monocotyledonous versification
Brachycolon is a monocotyledonous size. Each foot contains a word that contains a single syllable. At the same time, the line can contain several feet ("Night, day. Sound, step …" Tazzu Takamaro).
Among the most common feet are dissyllabic (iambic and trore) and three-syllable feet (dactyl, amphibrachium, anapest).
Bipartite versification
Chorea (trachea) is a two-syllable foot with an accent on the first syllable. ("Clouds are rushing, clouds are curling Invisible moon Illuminates the flying snow …" A. S. Pushkin)
Yamb is a two-syllable foot, with the stress falling on the second syllable. In the event that the word is long enough, then attention is focused on the secondary stress. ("My uncle of the most honest rules, When he got seriously ill …" A. S. Pushkin)
Tricycle versification
Dactyl (from the Greek Dáktylos - "finger") refers to a three-syllable foot in which only the first syllable is stressed, the other two are unstressed.
Amphibrachium (Greek amphibrachys - short on both sides) is a three-syllable foot with a stressed syllable in the middle.
Anapest (Greek anapaistos, i.e. reflected back), respectively, is characterized by the stress falling on the last (third) syllable.
In the three-syllable footsteps, there is a special memo in which the fundamental features of each of them are encrypted. "LADY locks the gate in the evening." The abbreviation "D / AM / A" is fraught with all three feet. The phrase “in the evening the calitus locks up” perfectly demonstrates examples of alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Polysyllabic dimensions of versification
There are also polysyllabic sizes, which involve the merging of several simple ones. The most popular are, perhaps, the peon and pentone.
The peon consists of one stressed and three unstressed syllables, moreover, they can go in any sequence, depending on which four types of peon are distinguished.
The story is the same with the pentone (five-syllable), only this is a five-syllable foot, one of the syllables of which is under stress. The five-syllable is one of the oldest non-classical dimensions of Russian poetry. The stanzas are characterized by a lack of rhyme (white verse). An example is the stanza from A. V. Koltsova: “Don't make noise, rye, Ripe ear! Don't sing, mower, About the wide steppe!"
