RHYTHM OF PROSE IN REALITY AND PERCEPTION

The topic of study remains poorly understood and relevant. It is still too early to talk about the existence of prose rhythm, because it deals with different research approaches and interests of researchers in this field. Therefore, there is no uniform method of identifying prose rhythm. The author suggests a method of determining the rhythm of prose, which presents the figures of the regularity of prosodic units alternation: verbal accents, borders of syntagmatic articulation and intonation. Indices of the three rhythmic characteristics: syllabic, syntagmatic and intonational — give the opportunity to compare rhythms of different writers and to assess the accuracy of the translation, matching the rhythms of the original and translated texts.