NEOLOGY AND RHYME (FUTURISTS, SOVIET POETS, SAPGIR, MODERN AUTHORS)

The article on the material of the XX century Russian poetry (futurists, neoavantgarde) describes peculiarities of using neologisms of different types and functionally related words in position of rhyme — a component of the verse structure constantly in need of renewal. The beginning of systematic use of neologisms and their imitations (for example, «children’s» words) in rhyme dates back to the works of Russian futurists: Khlebnikov, Mayakovsky, Kruchenykh, Kamensky. Then, in the Soviet period, Russian poets for the same purpose often put in the rhyming position all sorts of exotic vocabulary: names, geographical and other names, special terminology. Finally, in recent experimental poetry, neologisms or fragments of words functionally close to them begin to be used as rhyming words again. Special attention is paid to neological practice of Genrikh Sapgir.