Versification question, Tsvetaeva

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Molly Thomasy Blasing wrote:

> Dear Francoise,
> 
> A wonderful choice!  I own a recording of Tsvetaeva poems (read by an
> actress--there are no recordings of Tsvetaeva reading her work, as I
> understand) and the stress is, as you suggested, on the first
> syllable of PO-ru.

This is also the standard stress on the accusative, is it not?

Пора is one of a small set of two- (occasionally three-) syllable 
feminine nouns with retracted stress in the accusative singular. 
Compare: нога, рука, голова (from Common Slavic *golvā via pleophony), 
щека, etc. (but глава with no retraction from Bulgarian).

To the best of my knowledge, these have not yet been leveled out, at 
least in the literary language.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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