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Tercîa band means when you have to repeat something and to fasten the
last word to complete the whole line (Sindî 2011).
Sindî’s Nehat, ‘It Did Not Come,’ consists of 16 lines all ending with the sound
sequence za min nehat. The following are the first six lines of the poem.
(139) Dîl u êxsîrî ji gelî bun―ser feraza min nehat. (BS5:1-6)
Mam di’îşiqa wê şepalê―sil u zîza min nehat.
Çav dinêrim ez bibînim―xuş ‘ezîza min nehat.
Guh min da awaz u lavçan―dengê saza min nehat.
Ez ji ke’bê ra mirîdim―hec u ferza min nehat.
Cejne u sunete aştî―pir ‘aciza min nehat.
This is the only tercîa band in Badirxan Sindî’s book and I am unaware of any Kurdish
poets other than Ahmed Cezîrî and Ahmed Xanî (Shakely 1996:337) who have written in
this form. Two popular forms with which tercîa band may be compared are the French
villanelle and the American terzanelle. Like the tercîa band form, these forms utilize
refrains. For details on these forms, see Turco (2000: 273-5, 282-5).
5.3.1.4 Innovative form for rhymed verse
Cegerxwîn’s poem Silav Li Sifra Hazire, ‘Salute the Feast Is Ready,’ discussed
above as example (136), may very well be considered an unorthodox verse form, with its
many lines of rhyme-free endings. However, one of the verse poems in the corpus is even
more unusual and may best be considered a sonnet. Sindî’s Gerîanek Di Kurdistanê Da,
‘A Walk Through Kurdistan,’ is made up of five stanzas, each having 14 lines with a
rhyme scheme that can generally be described as AABBCCDDEEFFFZ. The lines rhyme
by couplet through to the ninth and tenth lines. Then there is a rhymed triplet composed
of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth lines. Finally, the fourteenth lines of each stanza
rhyme with each other, with the exception of line 14 of the third stanza which rhymes
with its own B lines.
While this generally sums up the rhyme scheme, the denser rhyme schemes
actually used in the poem are better seen by way of Table 18 which presents all five
stanzas and illustrates the interplay of rhymes across the couplet boundaries. I have