XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.russia, alt.poetry
"бес" (bes): This prefix means "without" or "lack of". It is commonly
used in Russian to negate nouns.
"сонница" (sonnitsa): This noun means "sleep". It is derived from the verb "спать" (spat'), meaning "to sleep".
------ Prob. related to SOMN
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Стихи, сочиненные ночью во время бессонницы...
Stikhi, sochinennye nochʹi͡u vo vremi͡a bessonnit͡sy...
--------- and the TITLE ends with 3 dots ?!?!?!?!?
I͡A poni͡atʹ tebi͡a khochu,
Smysla i͡a v tebe ishchu...
Я понять тебя хочу,
Смысла я в тебе ищу...
-------- i can make out Nothing..
All i get (tig) is [теб] must be YOU
Япония Yaponiya
(Я) -- Is there another Russian character
that stands for a [CV] syllable?
A Poem ending in 3 dots must be EXTREMELY rare in classic or traditional
poems.
and even for famous 20th century poets.
Looking thru some poems by Sylvia Plath and Louise Glu"ck,
i see that they sometimes use dashes --- but never ellipses (...).
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