Continuing the experiments of the linguistic and stylistic study of the poetic word, the article is directly related to the problems of artistic speech, as well as to questions about the principles and methods of their research, which attract the active attention of modern philologists. The interest of researchers in the word usage of poets is due to insufficient study of the verbal art of the outstanding masters of the Russian literary word. The observed desire to create works of a generalized nature (for example, the "Dictionary of the Language of Russian Soviet Poetry") does not, however, reduce the relevance of VV Vinogradov's well-known recommendations that "the scientific and linguistic study of modern poetry should begin with an intensive analysis of the individually closed systems of language means ". This provision served as the starting point for this study. In this article, we use the term functional significance. Each work of art is a set of of speech components united by the author's intention, the author's vision of the world, and the author's attitude to the word. Thus, functional significance is the enzyme that transforms the totality of all structural components of an individual work of art into context.