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contains 23 couplets. The following are lines 27 through 32 of that poem, illustrating the
rhyme scheme of AA, BB, CC, etc.
(137) dilber u aşiq her êkin lê belê rengê mecaz (BS1:27-32)
car bi caran bi îcazet hin li hin dê kin cîaz
pir evîna mililetê me êke gel zatê melê
ew di dil da nîşte cê ye lê belê çavê me lê
zahir u batin êk kese dişir’eta ‘şqa zelal
ew u Kurdînî êk kesin çi kemal bin çi zewal
The other methnawî poem, Dergehê Jîn U Hîvî Ya, ‘The Door of Life and Hopes,’
is composed of 24 couplets. Below are the last six lines of the poem.
(138) nabitin bu me tewafa ew cihê lê Mem u Zîn (BS4:43-48)
nabitin evro biburîn ji tuxîbê Xanîqîn
nabitin biçim nik Xanî bu vekim dilê bixwîn
nabitin biçim dêrsîmê bikelêşim dilê bievîn
dergehê jîn u hîvîa girtîe dîsa çima?
ma ji jîna kurte jîn bit ma ji ‘emrê me çi ma?
Sindî informed me that there is a form of couplet poetry in which the poet writes
the first line in Kurdish and the second line in Arabic or Persian. This form was popular
during the time of Ahmed Cezîrî in the 16 th and 17 th centuries and has fallen out of favor.
He knows of no one who presently writes in this form.
5.3.1.3 Tercîa band
Only one poem in the corpus was written in the tercîa band verse form. Sindî had
the following to say about tercîa band:
Tercîa means ‘repeating, to repeat something.’ It is an Arabic word.
Band 62 means ‘to tie something’ and it is a Persian and Kurdish word.
62 Regarding the word band, Sindî (2010) also had the following to say, “Band means sometimes ‘rope’ or
‘belt.’ It means ‘arrested man.’ Sometimes it means ‘slave’; sometimes it means ‘a man who is always
related to some other man.’ That is why in Bahdînî, we say ez banî. It means ‘I am in your band; I am your
servant; I am your slave, you are my lord.’’