Anacyclic verses (from the Greek. Ἀνά - up, against and κύκλος - circle, cycle) - a kind of poems that do not lose their meaning when reading from end to beginning. Also called "Sotadic" by the name of the ancient Greek poet Sotada (3rd century BC), who wrote obscene poems. It was he who introduced the sotad - a type of palindrome, and some researchers attribute the Sotad to the creation of palindromes.
For the first time poems are found in Greek and Latin anthologies. Varieties:
- One and the same thought: “I want to love you, I want to love you”;
- The opposite meaning: “I love the Jesuits, I will not break the given word” - it is read as “I break this word, I do not like the Jesuits”.
The poem is read back and forth not by letters (symbols), like a palindrome, but by words. It is important that the rhyme and order [1] [2] are maintained.
“Cruel is meditation. Silent night
Shakes the vision of the past
Flicker greets smiles sternly.
Suffering -
Deep - deep!
Suffering stern smiles meets ...
The flicker of the past - vision shakes ...
Silence, night meditation, is cruel! ”
( V. Bryusov )
Not the whole poem may be anacyclic, but individual words:
"The world came down to earth,
Slaves are uninhibited.
Moscow is the third Rome,
The fourth should not be ” [3] .
See also
- Palindrome
Literature
- Poetic dictionary. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. Kvyatkovsky A.P., scientific. ed. I. Rodnyanskaya. 1966.
- A complete dictionary of foreign words that have come into use in the Russian language .-- Popov M., 1907.
- Literary Encyclopedia : in 11 vols. - [ M. ], 1929-1939.
Notes
- ↑ Boris Zhukov. How to write poetry . - Dyatlovy mountains. - 66 p. - ISBN 9785905226588 .
- ↑ Poem "Bless the Sonnet, Veles! (Anacyclic verse) ”by Angelica Trinz - Literary site Fabulae . fabulae.ru. Date of treatment April 23, 2019.
- ↑ Big school encyclopedia. The humanities . - OLMA Media Group. - 544 p. - ISBN 9785224032150 .