sentences:  Despite the meter it is possible to arrange a complex poem like the prooimion of a Christmas kontakion composed by Romanos the Melodist which has its own history as a kontakion with its music and text, according to the simple melodic model of a sticheron in echos tritos of the Octoechos.In the current tradition the kontakion exists as well as avtomelon—as a model to recite stichera prosomoia which was as well translated into Old Church Slavonic.The arrangement of the syllables with their metric accentuation are composed as a well-known hymn tune or sticheron avtomelon within the melos of a certain echos.