Graphic composition of poem in the Russian syllabic poetry of the XVII-XVIII centuries

The article deals with the first consideration of the issue of the graphic composition of the poem in the Russian syllabic poetry. The study allowed to reveal the specific features of the composition of the poetic texts by the poets, the types of the graphic composition of the poem, used by them, the reasons of their appealing to the potential of the graphics and its functions. The author managed to show that the graphics was becoming one of the basic traits of the poem, dividing it from the prose, specifically in the period of the syllabic poetry.