Editors' preface

Mihhail Lotman, Maria-Kristiina Lotman

9-17

Verse as a semiotic system

Mihhail Lotman

18-50

Поэзия как семиотическая система. Резюме

Mihhail Lotman

50-51

Some aspects of poetic rhythm

an essay in cognitive metrics

Eva Lilja

52-64

Rhythm and meaning

"rhythmical deviations' as italics

Marina Tarlinskaja

65-80

Synonymy and rank in alliterative poetry

Jonathan Roper

82-92

The derivatives of hexameter in estonian poetry and their link with the traditional hexameter

Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Mihhail Lotman

94-119

Дериваты гексаметра в эстонской поэтической традиции. Резюме

Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Mihhail Lotman

119-120

Lexicon and rhetoric in fet's translation of Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea

Emily Klenin

121-152

Leksika ja retoorika afanassi feti tolkes Goethe "hermannist ja dorotheast". kokkuvõte

Emily Klenin

153-154

Notes on the metrical semantics of Russian, French and German imitations of Janus Secundus's Basium II

Igor Pilščikov

155-175

Verse semantics of some metres in Uku masing's poetry

Aile Tooming

177-191

Metre and meaning in two poems by Ilpo Tiihonen

Satu Grünthal

192-209

Maximilian Voloshin's classical metres

Igor Karlovsky

211-229

On the functions of metrical dualism in M. Tsvetayeva's verse on the basis of the poem "how Perfectly deceitful life is …." (1922)

Vadim Semenov

231-242

"Cколько стоятъ въ Лондонѣ галоши"

quasi-trochees in Nabokov's prose

Grigori Utgof

244-258