0 a piece of writing, especially one that has short lines and uses words that sound the same -- стихотворение, поэма
The regular pattern of alternating long and short syllables, which is reversed only in the middle, accounts for the measured pace of both poems.
The 1847 draft is not extant, but the 1860 revision survives along with the 1870 poem that was finally published.
The poem tells the reader a number of things.
The image faithfully represents the things described in the poem.
Perhaps this is an example of the audience helping to adjust the performance of a poem.
This prepares the way for the return of the poem's opening line.
In short, "the nation is an audience to be created by histories, poems, and pictures of a disappearing rural life" (28).
The poem has enduring significance because of its comment on the "transhistorical" nature of oppressive institutions.
