Versification question, Tsvetaeva

[Francoise Rosset]

Dear Colleagues:

I am stumped by a line in a Tsvetaeva poem.
(One of our students is preparing to read it for a poetry reading).

The poem is "U menia v Moskve kupola goriat," which may be found 
online at:
http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/....[gibberish]
for ....[gibberish] you need to type, in Russian:
_U_menia_v_Moskve_ - _kupola_goriat!_ (Vërsty: Vypusk 1 - Tsvetaeva)

The issue is scanning the beginning of lines 10 and 15 , which both 
begin with "O tu poru, kak ..."

My native-speaker Language assistant suggested at first it was a 
mistake. It is not. She's not sure where to put the stress. The poem 
is dol'nik-like: 3-4 clear stresses with a varying number of syllables 
in between. Therefore we cannot rely on a more traditional meter 
pattern to determine the stress.

We think that "o ty POru," stress on _PO_ works best with the rhythm 
of the poem, but she's not sure that can be done.
So I'd appreciate your expert opinion.
We all thank you,
-FR


Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Coordinator, German and Russian
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
Office: (508) 285-3696
FAX:   (508) 286-3640

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