Аннотация:The aim of this paper is to discuss the theoretical grounds of, the arising problems in, and practical solutions for automated rhythmic-metrical and morphological-accentual analysis of Russian poetic texts. The metrical analysis of poetic texts written in a language with variable stress (such as Russian) should be based on the morphological analysis, from which we may proceed either using manual disambiguation, or applying the elements of syntactic analysis with automated disambiguation, or developing a probabilistic approach. The concluding section of the paper describes a statistical and corpus-based approach to the description of Russian classical (“explicit”) and non-classical (“implicit”) meters.