Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
There are no words "хмарь" and "сырь" in Russian but they use known roots and can be understood by native speakers intuitively. зари
Actually "хмарь" and "сырь" are words in their own right. Yesenin did not invent them. It's just dialect/colloquial, and such a word choice accentuates his "village" theme in poetry.