Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Notes on prosody -- 1. Prosodies -- 2. Feet -- 3. The Scud -- 4. Tilted Scuds -- 5. Spondees -- 6. Elisions -- 7. The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia -- 8. Difference in Modulation -- 9. Examples of Modulations -- 10. Counts of Modulations in Eugene Onegin -- 11. Other Meters and Rhythms -- 12. Differences in Use of Meter -- 13. Rhyme -- Index -- Abraham Gannibal -- Foreword -- Pushkin's Comments Published During His Lifetime -- Pushkin's Ancestors -- The Documents -- Dates of Abram Gannibal's Birth and Death -- Gannibal's Origin -- Gannibal's Birthplace -- Gannibal's Sister -- Gannibal's Parentage -- Gannibal's Enslavement -- Gannibal in Turkey -- Gannibal and Raguzinski -- Gannibal's First Years in Russia (1706-16) -- Gannibal in Western Europe (1716-23) -- Gannibal and Annibal -- Gannibal's Later Years in Russia (1723-81) -- Conclusions -- Works Consulted -- Index