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Apr 14 at 17:43 vote accept Bruno
Apr 14 at 17:31 comment added Quassnoi @Bruno: in isolation, вре́мя кати́т чередо́м could indeed be scanned as a trisyllabic foot, but the rest of the poem can't
Apr 14 at 17:07 comment added Bruno I was asking (my phrasing was clumsy): from knowing that we have ча́с за ча́сом, де́нь за днём you can know whether we have Вре́мя кати́т чередо́м, or Вре́мя ка́тит чередо́м,? Some guess: ча́с за ча́сом is stressed-unstressed-stressed-unstressed and thus if we want the same for the next verse we should have Вре́мя ка́тит and not Вре́мя кати́т. Or (from what I understood from your comment) the logic is: Вре́мя кати́т чередо́м, is not allowed because it would be neither a iamb or a trochee, so it has to be: Вре́мя ка́тит чередо́м,?
Apr 14 at 16:34 comment added Quassnoi @Bruno: of course you can. час за часом, день за днём is a disyllabic foot, as evidenced by the syllabic structure of the words. The stresses of the words should match the long syllables of the foot. You can scan it as an iamb or as a trochee. Scanning it as an iamb *час за́ часо́м, день за́ днем is not anything like people talk in real life, hence its a trochee.
Apr 14 at 15:39 comment added Bruno Very nice answer, thank you very much! "However, the vast majority of poems (although not all) written before 1840 use the stress on the inflectional ending (кати́шь)." Do you deduce this only from rhymes (for instance, катится / молиться in the result 2) or can you have this information also whenever it does not appear in rhymes (for instance in the result 1 by knowing how the verse "Час за часом, день за днем, -" is stressed)?
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