The Poetic corpus has been developed since 2006 and includes poetic works, including plays in verse and verse translations. It includes texts created after 1700. It is based on the most complete and authoritative critical editions of culturally significant authors (Biblioteka Poeta or collected works); collective anthologies of poetae minores are also represented in the corpus. For the 20th century, preference is given to authors who have become the subject of contemporary scholarly research and who have influenced the literary process (including the history of verse). Texts written entirely or predominantly in foreign languages, in zaum (transrational) language, or based on techniques of visual poetry, etc., are not included in the corpus.
The corpus provides the standard semantic and morphological annotation, similar to that used in the corpus with unresolved homonymy. Since 2025, an additional annotation layer has also been available, featuring automatically disambiguated morphological analyses, with partial manual correction.
A special verse annotation layer is provided. Thus, it is possible to customize a subcorpus written in amphibrachic meter, accentual verse systems, five-line stanzas, free rhyming, formes fixes such as sonnets, etc. From the subcorpus list one may navigate directly to the texts of poems without constructing a query.
Within the text, elements of verse annotation are also introduced: each verse line features information about the meter it is written in, and it is possible to construct a search query among lines written in a particular meter. When visualizing the output, the line-by-line annotation of the meter is viewable. Within the poetry corpus, metric ictuses are marked. Within rhymed texts, words falling within the line-final rhyming zone are marked as well; so it is possible to search for words from this zone only.
Search by ictus positions is also possible (in the “Word form” field, using the symbol '— for example, музы'к* or му'зык*).
The principles for selecting texts for inclusion in the Corpus and for applying verse (metrical) annotation are described in more detail in publications on the Poetic Corpus.