Interestingly, Nick Turbina knew what a stanza or syllabo-tonic, when from her children's verses were poured - adults, sad, filled with no childhood experiences? Hardly. Yes, and she did not need to, like Pushkin at the beginning of the poetry experiments. As well as other outstanding poets. But they were geniuses, their gift was born with them, but even they studied the technique of versification and its laws. Especially it is necessary for us, "not geniuses". In order for poetry to reach consciousness and the heart, one must learn to read, perceive, understand the lyrical work. From the lyrics we expect shocks caused by the concatenation of sounds, words, images, rhythms, meanings, which create a lyrical experience, for which we open collections of poems. And someone who truly loves poetry, can not help but wonder how a poetic miracle is created. What is a stanza, if such ordinary words, assembled into harmonious lines and couplets, are able to touch the inner strings of the soul? And the language of poetry is perhaps the most complicated form of language existence, and one must learn to understand it. But how?
How "do" poetry?
Modern psychology in the most effective way recognizes an activity that is adequate to the one that is invested in the object under study. If so, then from the recipient (the one who perceives), the verses require the same imaginative creative work and active inclusion of emotions, as well as from their creator. It turns out that if you want to understand poetry, you should try to write poetry yourself. But first you need to find out from what and how "do verses", what is stanza, rhyme, rhythm and other subtleties of "versification". By the way, some types of stanzas, like the poems themselves, have authors, that is, they were specially created by poets. In the literature, there is a Spencerian stanza, Byron's Octave, Onegin stanza, and Tercet. In all names, except the last, the author's name is guessed. But Dante, who invented the tercet for the "Divine Comedy" in the form that we know it today, deserves to be named. The Dante invention is a stanza of three verses (verse - line) that rhymes according to the scheme: 1 and 3 lines rhyme among themselves, the second - with the first and third of the next stanza, then everything repeats. Look at the example from the poem: It should be noted that not all three-line stanzas are called tercins (in this way it is called a tercet in another way). In Japanese poetry, there is hokku. There are also three lines in it, but there is no rhyme. A fixed number of lines is also inherent in an octave (8), quatrain (4), distich (2), and monostichus (1).
You can take up the pen
Finding out what a stanza is, what kinds of stanzas are, we continue our poetic education, mastering the rhythm, sizes, types of rhymes. Now you can take up the pen. A modern pen is a pen, a pen, a computer mouse. It should work out! Hardly something brilliant, but, at least, slim and sonorous. It's true, after so many diligent efforts, you begin to perceive verses in another way, to understand how many works lightness and simplicity of masterpieces of Pushkin, Tyutchev, Fet ... And perhaps, I would like to find the listener my first and already favorite poetry? Nothing is impossible! Why not arrange a poetic competition? The most famous poets of antiquity, Ancient China and medieval Japan did not consider it to be a shame to compete in a poetic ring . In such competitions, skill is honed, poets gain fame and the opportunity to convey their feelings and thoughts.
Do not say "praise"!
Concluding our small occupation, we once again emphasize his main idea: it is impossible to discover the meaning of a poetic work without revealing the features of the artistic form into which this meaning is embodied - the verse composition (stropheque). Yu. Lotman is right in asserting that even a simplified "schematic description of general structural regularities" more reveals the uniqueness and beauty of lyrical lines before us than the repeated repetition of laudatory phrases about their genius. After all, no matter how much you say "halva" (here it is more appropriate "praise"), it will not be sweet.