Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Author’s Note vii
4. Notes on prosody
5. 1. Prosodies 3
6. 2. Feet 4
7. 3. The Scud 9
8. 4. Tilted Scuds 17
9. 5. Spondees 27
10. 6. Elisions 30
11. 7. The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia 33
12. 8. Difference in Modulation 46
13. 9. Examples of Modulations 51
14. 10. Counts of Modulations in Eugene Onegin 69
15. 11. Other Meters and Rhythms 76
16. 12. Differences in Use of Meter 80
17. 13. Rhyme 82
18. Index 97
19. Abraham Gannibal
20. Foreword 107
21. Pushkin’s Comments Published During His Lifetime 108
22. Pushkin’s Ancestors 111
23. The Documents 112
24. Dates of Abram Gannibal’s Birth and Death 114
25. Gannibal’s Origin 116
26. Gannibal's Birthplace 118
27. Gannibal’s Sister 125
28. Gannibal’s Parentage 127
29. Gannibal’s Enslavement 131
30. Gannibal in Turkey 134
31. Gannibal and Raguzinski 139
32. Gannibal’s First Years in Russia (1706–16) 143
33. Gannibal in Western Europe (1716–23) 148
34. Gannibal and Annibal 152
35. Gannibal’s Later Years in Russia (1723–81) 153
36. Conclusions 155
37. Works Consulted 162
38. Index 169