The keynote of folk songs in Necrasov's poems is clearly reflected in his masterpiece Who Can Live a Good Life in Russia. The title, structure and fairy-tale beginning of long poems are closely related to folk rap literature. The plot of a long poem is like a fairy tale looking for human destiny, happiness and truth. Long poems begin with the usual fairy tales:
Which year and which month-please calculate, where where-let you guess, but it is said that on a road, seven plowmen met together. ...
As in folk fairy tales, the seven protagonists in the long poem quarrel endlessly. Then, with the help of the talking magical bird, they made up and decided to find happiness together. In this way, what the truth seeker saw and heard during his roaming in Russia, as well as the self-report of the imaginary happy people pursued by seven plowmen, constitute the content of the long poem. In order to strengthen the impression at the beginning of a long poem, Necrasov also used the repetition technique commonly used in folk songs. Every time the seven protagonists meet a new character, they will repeat where they come from, why they quarrel and what they are thinking.
The language of long poems contains rich folk flavor. The poet abandoned the "elegant" poetic language that aristocratic writers always admired, boldly wrote poems in the peasant's spoken language, and absorbed a large number of folk sayings, slang, proverbs and riddles, fully demonstrating the richness, vividness, wit and poetry of the popular language.
It flies in front of you-like an eagle, it flies behind you-like a crow, it flies in front of you-but it flies behind you-it cannot be pulled down. ...
"It" means "disaster" here. Farmers live in fear all the year round, and it is impossible to say that natural and man-made disasters will suddenly fly. Farmers can't control their own destiny when they flee from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth. "Disaster" was originally an abstract concept, but the poet made it concrete and emotional with vivid metaphors of folk songs, which profoundly revealed the suffering of farmers.
The meter of this long poem also has distinctive folk song characteristics. The musicality of Russian folk songs is embodied in various rhythms (steps) formed by the arrangement and combination of stress and light sounds, among which the most distinctive step is "emphasizing light". Necrasov refined the folk songs, and adopted the form of blank poems in his long poems, as well as the basic meter combining three-tone iambic pentameter with "light and heavy" endings, with another line ending with stress every few lines. This kind of meter is not only suitable for rap, but also conducive to lyricism and satire. Occasionally interspersed with alliteration, waist rhyme, foot rhyme, symmetry, double voice and other musical techniques. Many ballads and narrative poems contained in long poems are metrical poems, and the metrical poems are rich and colorful. Necrasov creatively used folk songs, which was unique in form. (Gan Yuze)