Abstract
The article sets the task of conducting a comparative study of the original text and its translations using the technique of supersegmental units. The latter were taken as units, which are defined as sequences or «motifs» and are formed by analyzing the order of units in the text. Motifs are a tool for analyzing the author’s style and make it possible to give a quantitative description of stylistic features, comparison and classification of the styles of various authors. These possibilities of motifs are used in this article to compare a number of stylistic features of one of the best poems by the famous romantic poet John Keats, «The Eve of St. Agnes», and two translations of this work, made by famous poets-translators Sergey Sukharev and Evgeniy Vitkovsky. Sequences of attributes of various types were used to form motives. The study is quantitative in nature and various statistical measures were used (Euclidean distance, chi-square, correlation coefficient). As a result of the analysis, a level of similarity and a number of differences in the manner of rendering the original in the translations were established.
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