The constant rhyme pair satira - Kantemira is repeatedly mentioned in the scientific literature, in the article by A.A. Ilyushin (1982) in particular. In our work, we consider rhymes that include the name or surname of Antiokh Kantemir, and rhymes that include the word satira. The Poetic Corpus of The Russian National Corpus was primarily used for the work: despite the fact that it doesn’t yet include all Russian-language poetic works, it can be considered representative, in part due to its wide popularity inscientific community; we also added other examples from poetry collections. Analysis demonstrates that is it possible to confirm or refute the assertion that the words satira and Kantemir often appear next to each other in a rhyme position. It also shows the semantics of the rhyme pairs encountered, and allows to see in principle the frequency of usage of Kantemir's name and surname in a rhyme position. The analysis reveals that the word satira is used many times in Russian poetry in 92 the rhyme position, its popularity is incomparable with the use of the name or surname of Antioch Kantemir in the rhyme position. It cannot be said that these words invariably coexist with each other: for example, Russian poets used rhyme pair mir - Kantemir three times, mir also in different senses of this word constantly accompanies satira, and the most common rhyme is lira - satira (as part of a poetic understanding of the world or, on the contrary, as something that is opposed to crude satire). However, when Kantemir's surname is in the rhyme position, in a third of the cases it rhymes with the word satira, in addition, among the surnames of poets, only the surname Kantemir is repeatedly used in a pair of rhymes together with satira. This confirms the validity of the idea of the combination satira - Kantemira rhyme as a stable pair of rhymes.
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