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(161) şînyî u tazî ji gelî bûn 67 çep u rast u jor u jêr (BS1:15, 16)
şev u roj xelkî girî bun kal u genc u jin u mêr
The longest example of a multisyllabic rhyming sequence consists of the last five
syllables in lines 6 and 7 of Silêman’s Gutgutik, ‘Rumors,’ shown in (162). The onsets
for the first, second and fourth syllables, shown in italics, differ while the vowels remain
consistent.
(162) Hindek yê ji keyfa pê firî (SS1:6, 7)
Hindek yê ji qehra pê mirî
Table 20 lists some other multisyllabic rhyming sequences in the corpus.
5.3.3.1.4 Mosaic rhyme
Table 20. Additional instances of multisyllabic rhyming sequence.
AN3 15, 16 mirîn, şirîn biçîn
BS4 17, 18 -ê barê xubim -zê malê xubim
BS4 27, 28 ew çar bira ew çarçira
SS1 9, 11 -hêzin -bêjin
SS1 16, 17 gurî xwelî 68
Mosaic rhyme is when one rhyme is compound and the other normal (Turco
2000:53). This strategy was used by three of the four poets represented in the corpus who
wrote verse poetry, as illustrated below, with both perfect and identical rhyme. In (163)
rabû rhymes with Zuleyxa bû and derkir, ker kir, and anber kir rhyme with each other. In
(164) çima rhymes with çi ma and in (165) memê bu rhymes with sîxwecê bu and rêbu.
(163) me dît canek ji xew rabû (AN1:2, 4)
me texmîn kir Zuleyxa bû
67 The words bûn and bun (in line 16) are part of the rhyme. The spelling of this past tense copula varies
throughout the poetry. Though one of these is likely a typographical error, I have left the spellings as found
in the original text. My consultant advised me that bûn is the correct spelling of the word.
68 The character و in the Kurdish script represents both w and u in the Latin script. Some dialects (perhaps
only in certain words) pronounce the dipthong we as u. My opinion is that this is the rhyme intended by the
poet, the accepted spelling of xwelî with the dialect pronunication of xulî.