Mandelstam’s camp poem: an attempt at reconstruction
... tradition and within the context of Mandelstam’s late work. It is argued that the extant record is not a fragment of a lost text, but a complete poem—a one-line epigram. Rhythmic and phonetic analysis brings this poem close to the experiments in ancient versification found in “Stone”. The collision of stressed syllables places these verses beyond the limits of dol’nik and taktovik. Since the number of syllables is equal in each line, it is suggested to use the term syllabometric, employed by ...
