This collection of articles contains reports and heads of reports to the Internetional Conference "Modern Models of Cultural Industries Development in Russian Regions", that was held in Saint-Petersburg on 9-10 October 2014 with the support of Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation.

This monograph deals with problems regarding the typology of verse forms and systems, and with the use of quantitative and cognitive approaches for analyzing poetry in various languages. It generalizes theoretical and practical notions and approaches that have been elaborated by employing the so-called Russian method and describes other methodologies. The author demonstrates the principles for analyzing verse texts in various languages by using the general methodology of producing and evaluating their rhythmic notation. Verse rhythmics are examined against the background of language prosody.