Просодика києворуських літописів: строфічна будова старокиївської поезії

The article introduces a new research tool for studying the prosodic and metric structure of Kyiv Rus chronicles and other texts — a strophic period. Strophic period was a metrical, lexical and syntactical unit with a symmetrical structure. On the lexical level, the symmetry was expressed by symmetrically repeated lexical series, whereas on the metrical — by the equal quantity of syllables in the two halves of the strophic period, i.e. stroph and antistroph. The notion of symmetrical lexical series was a lacking chain to integrate the study of the chronicles and «Slovo o polku Igoreve» into one methodological frame, and to unify different ideas expressed previously about the nature of prosodic structure of the «Slovo o polku Igoreve». Strophic period of the Kyiv Rus chronicles shares a lot of elements in its formal structure with the strophic organisation of Old Czech «Dalimil Chronicle». This implies that the formal structure of the both monuments should have had some common source that predated the both, probably, it was byzantine hymnography. Such a relationship is supported by the similarity of metrical and lexical models in Byzantine hymnography (in particular, in the kondaks of Romanos Melodos) and in both Slavic monuments. The proposed tools of metrical analysis are used in the article to divide the opening episode of the Tale of Bygone Years according to the Ypatian copy into metrical segments (strophic periods). It turned out that the manuscript transmission in all the oldest manuscripts (Lavrentian, Ypatian, Radziviloan, Ostroh) consistently preserved the division into cola, which are grouped into larger units — lines and strophic periods. The author of this individual episode was aware of the form in which he created, as evidenced by the use of strophic periods of different lengths as a means of distinguishing compositional parts. Thus, folklore sources could influence this complex poetic form only as models for certain lexical formulas that were subordinated to already known literary models.