FEATURES OF DARGINSKY VERSIFICATION

Abstract

Principles of rhythmic organization of poetry are diverse, and depend on the nature and specifics of the language. Rhythmic basis of poetic speech remains the same and unchanged for the Dagestan peoples. In Dagestan languages, both longitude and stress are weakly expressed. And that is why Dagestani poetry is based on a syllabic system of versification that requires the same number of syllables per line. The principles of rhythmic organization of poetry are diverse, and depend on the nature and specifics of the language. However, the rhythmic basis of poetic speech, established since ancient times, remains uniform and unchanged for the Dagestan peoples. Such a common basis is the division of speech into rhythmic commensurate segments-poems. In the Dargwa language, as in the languages of other peoples of Dagestan, both the length of the vowels and the stress are weakly expressed. Therefore, Dargwa vowels by their very nature don’t become rhythmic foundations for versification, which relies on metrics.