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quatrain. Only in the final quatrain do we again see rhyme in the first and third lines
giving a rhyme scheme of CXCB.
(136) ey sûxteyê bê nav u deng, (CX2:1-8)
dijmin li ser balafire.
pir leşker u top u tiveng;
seîda ewe, ew mahire.
sed salin ev zeîd u ‘emir,
cenge dikel rîşa melê
mertal di dest wan de bihuşt;
gurzê di dest wan agire.
seîdayê rast u ronîye,
lewra cegerxwîn namîdar.
zana dizanin ew kî ye,
ên ker dibêjin kafire.
………….
(CX2:29-32)
The examples above are representative of the quatrain rhyme schemes found in
this corpus. As this is such a small sampling of the çuarkî poetry, with more research one
might encounter other rhyme schemes. For example, Turco mentions an interlocking
ruba’iyat that is common in Arabic and Persian poetry. This chain verse has a rhyme
scheme of AABA, BBCB, CCDC, ending with ZZAZ, where the third line of the final
quatrain circles back to the rhyme in the initial quatrain (Turco 2000:245). Considering
the influence of Persian and Arabic poets on Kurdish poets, it would not be surprising to
find interlocking çuarkî poems within the body Kurdish poetry.
The çuarkî schemes found in the corpus are summarized in Table 17.