The article deals with the problems of narratological organization of lyrics. There is some disproportion in the study of narratological features of works in relation to their genre and genus nature. Researchers often draw the attention of narratological strategy of epic works. The peculiarities of the organization of the narrative of lyrical works are among the least studied aspects of narratological discourse The practice of world poetry demonstrates that the sonnet has become an accu-mulative expression of feelings and an intense lyrical beginning. Combining sonnets into cycles leads to an increase in the role of narrative structures, narrative epics.Yurii Klen’s poetic cycle «Kolo zhyttove» as a multi-element lyrical system is characterized by the pulsation of narrative focalization, shifts in the narrator’s point of view and changes in the forms of the lyrical subject. The evolution of the forms of the lyrical subject can be conditionally represented in the following algorithm: from the subject (which is presented as another) to the removed narrator again to the subject, but which is not only «another», but also becomes a kind of container of the author’s voice and humanity in general.The lyrical autonomy of each individual sonnet is overcome by the epic cohesion of the cycle in order to create a generalized picture of all-encompassing and individual existence. Such a dual unity of the sonnet cycle in the artistic consciousness of Yurii Klen made it possible to quite naturally combine a multi-element lyrical system with various manifestations of narrative strategy. The result was a dynamic universal pro-jection on a separate and common being.The narrative strategy of the cycle emphasizes the leading motive of the work a per-son, once in the world, becomes an integral part of it. But he perceives the macrocosm as alien and hostile and does not feel her organic unity with it. A person is doomed to search for himself and his coordinates in the reality that surrounds him all his life. But the reward is a possible and desirable awareness of one's own essence in harmony with the world. That is, a person passes the cherished circle as a symbol of eternal return and perfection