RHYTHMIC STRUCTURE OF ETIM EMIN'S POEM "TO FRIENDS"
The article deals with the rhythmic analysis of E. Emin's poem «Dustaris» («To Friends»). It has been undertaken on the basis of a new procedure in poetry. Lotman's theory of the mechanism of poetic rhythm functioning has been developed further in making more precise rhythmic unit: the latter is characterized as the structure, which includes not only metric but phonic, syntactic, melodic and lexico-semantic components as well.