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boundaries. 65 Disyllabic true end rhyme was also more prevalent than true end rhyme
focused on a single syllable. The following couplets from Sindî’s Dergehê Jîn u Hîvî Ya,
‘The Door of Life and Hopes,’ exhibit disyllabic true end rhymes. In (156) lewa rhymes
with xewa and eve rhymes with şeve.
(156) ew çirayên mililetîne şewiq vedan bu me lewa (BS4:29, 30)
bilbilên şermin dixuînin Kurdu dê rabe ji xewa
zana u nezan her êkin Kurdînu nabit eve (BS4:33, 34)
lew ji êşa em dinalîn her li me dunya şeve
The corpus also contains many examples of multisyllabic end rhyme where
rhymes cross word boundaries. These examples are discussed in § 5.3.3.1.4 on mosaic
rhyme. In some instances, there is identical rhyme, where a word is repeated in the
rhymed sentence. 66 In the discussion that follows, examples (157) through (159) exhibit
this type of rhyme.
Multisyllabic rhyme was the most common type of rhyme in Dilê Cegerxwîn,
‘Cegerxwîn’s Heart.’ In the example that follows, the rhymes consist of three syllables
that cross word boundaries. Such a rhyme is said to have a compound ending. The
repetition of the word min in lines 5 and 6, the word ew in lines 7 and 8, and the word dil
at the end of lines 6 and 8, are identical rhymes contributing to the compound endings.
Yarê min, guhdarê min and êvarê min rhyme the final three syllables, as do naxoşe ew,
poşe ew and seîdoşe ew. Bêzare dil, at the end of line 6, rhymes with kerare dil at the end
of line 8. Note here that the consonantal onsets of the first syllables of the rhymed
65 See § 5.3.3.1.4 on mosaic rhyme.
66 Turco (2003:53) defines identical rhyme as having “identity of sound in the consonants immediately
preceding the accented vowel as well as in the following sounds (cyʹst, persiʹst, insiʹst).” For this paper I
have opted for Adams’ (1997:199) looser definition that does not consider accent. He identifies identical
rhyme as simply, “a word rhymes with itself,” which is basically the repetition of a word. He uses an
example from Emily Dickenson’s “Because I Could not Stop for Death” where the end of line 2 and line 4
in a quatrain is the same word, “ground.”