Gatserelia, Akaki. Georgian Verse: Stress, Rhythm, Rhyme, Strophe (K'artuli leksi: makhvili, rit'mi, rit'ma, st'rofi). 2nd edition, 1955. In Georgian.

გაწერელია, აკაკი. ქართული ლექსი : მახვილი, რიტმი, რითმა, სტროფი. გამოცემა მეორე / საქ. სსრ განათლ. სამინისტრო.
თბ. : სამეცნ.-მეთოდ. კაბინ. გამ-ბა, 1955 (სტალინის სახ. თბილ. სახელმწ. უნ-ტის სტ.). 230 გვ. ; 20 სმ. 
მაგარი ყდა (ქაღალდით გარეკანი). ტირაჟი 2 000 ც.
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Gats'erelia, Akaki. Georgian Verse: Stress, Rhythm, Rhyme, Strophe / 2nd edition ; Ministry of Education of the Georgian SSR.
Tbilisi : Scientific-Methodological Cabinet Publishing House, 1955 (Press of Stalin-named Tbilisi State University). 230 pp. ; 20 cm.
Hardcover (paper-covered boards). Print run of 2,000 copies.
Condition good: boards with heavy age-toning, staining throughout, and slight corner crease at upper front; spine intact; text block firm and complete.

Akaki Gats'erelia was one of the most prominent Georgian literary scholars of the mid-twentieth century, specializing in the formal theory of Georgian versification. He stood at the center of the defining scholarly debate over the character of Georgian verse - whether the tradition should be classified as syllabic or syllabotonic - arguing vigorously against Giorgi Tsereteli and other proponents of syllabic classification. His standing extended beyond the Caucasus: in 1970, the prestigious East German literary journal Sinn und Form (vol. 22) published an extended interview with him, placing him among the handful of Soviet Georgian cultural figures to receive serious engagement in Western European literary circles. The present work, Georgian Verse: Stress, Rhythm, Rhyme, Strophe, presents his systematic analysis of the principal formal elements of the Georgian poetic tradition: the role of stress (makhvili) in the meter of the classical shairi, the organization of rhythm and rhyme, and the structure of strophic forms from Rustaveli through the modern period. Published under the Ministry of Education of the Georgian SSR by its Scientific-Methodological Cabinet, the volume served both as a scholarly reference and as a pedagogical tool for university and secondary education in Georgian literature.