Idiostylistic aspects of key structures in German poetry (A study of H. Heine's lyric poems)

The article analyzes how key structures function in German poems. It substantiates the idea that key structures are used universally in poetic texts and analyzes idiostylistic features of key structures in German lyric poems written by H. Heine. The conclusion summarizes the research findings and stresses that the functioning of key structures in German, Russian and French poems follows the same laws. These laws are based on the specific pattern of sense formation. The key structure follows the pattern and, as a result, turns out to have different meanings at the beginning and at the end of the text.