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This paper examines a folklore interpretation of literary culture at the verse level. The author studies the structural transformation of syllabic text in a culture in which the syllabic-accentual system of versification has become standard. This is what makes the study innovative, as, traditionally, comparative studies focus on images and motifs. The goal of the research is to identify the prerequisites, directions, and mechanisms of the folklorisation of literary verse. It refers to several editions of a syllabic poem dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and folk versions of this text that existed in the Russian north, known as Stikh Umilitelen (About Death, On Life Ending, etc.). The author uses audio recordings of folk texts made during expeditions, which makes it possible to get a more accurate idea of the norms of folk accentuation. The analysis is carried out at a multidisciplinary level, involving literary studies …