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of the prose poems in the corpus also exhibit this feature. These are Mu’eyed Teyb’s
Firekê Baî , ‘A Sip of Wind,’ and Şaban Silêman’s Gutgutik, ‘Rumors.’
5.3.3.1.1 True rhyme
The most basic rhyme is called true rhyme, which according to Turco (2000:49)
‏-׳o‏)‏ “has to do with identical sound, in two or more words, of an accented vowel sound
‏(׳ow‏-׳oa together with all sounds following that vowel (o׳ne-oa׳n-ow׳n), while the
consonant sounds immediately preceding the vowel differ in each word (bo׳ne-loa׳ngrow׳n).”
In the following lines from Nalbend’s Xoşe Wekî Cenetê, ˈIt’s Wonderful Like
Heaven,’ the first, second, and third lines of each stanza exhibit true rhyme in each line’s
final syllable. For example, in lines 9 through 11, shown in (155), the second syllables of
the words bihar and hizar rhyme with bar. The fourth lines of all the stanzas in this poem
rhyme with one another, exhibiting end rhyme focused on a single syllable. In lines 13,
17 and 20, also shown, şîn rhymes with the final syllables of nazenîn and şirîn.
(155) tazeye lê xoş bihar (AN2:9-20)
aẍ u rez u daru bar
cinsê kulîlka hizar
gav u dema sûr u şîn
zwîr u girî bin tiraş
yaze letîf xuş u baş
libsê çîyayî qumaş
dil vekere nazenîn
kêrî şîv u nihal
sergir u rêhel wirwal
kehnî avin zelal
sar u sivik tam şirîn
True end rhymes focused on a single syllable were prominent in the following texts:
CX1, CX3, BS7, MT3, AN1, AN2, AN3, AN4, BS1, BS2, BS4 and SS1.
5.3.3.1.2 Multisyllabic rhyme
Disyllabic true end rhyme was the most common multisyllabic rhyme in the
corpus. Such a rhyme may occur between individual words or may cross word