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are three lines and two of the three rhymes contain ena. Second, if one looks at all of the
end rhymes in the poem Ey Malikê Vê ‘Alemê, ‘O Lord Of This World,’ one can see that
Nalbend was intentionally writing two syllable rhymes.
With this in mind, consider another rhyme from the same poem. Below in (174)
is the rhyme of dileşî, xuşî and keşî. On the vowel chart the vowels e and u are quite
distant from one another. Based on the distance and the dissimilarity of the two vowels, it
seems best to consider the rhyme of xuşî with dileşî and keşî to be imperfect, not feature
rhyme.
(174) hindî we riḧ maye dileşî nabin dewam xêr u xuşî (AN3:29, 30)
bu çî tu hêyî zeḧmet keşî ‘umrê me her bê faîdeye
Four other rhymes are up for debate as to whether or not they should be
considered feature rhymes. In all four instances i is to be compared with u. The distance
between the two vowels is great. The only similarity is that both vowels have the feature
of being near-close. 70 The letter i is near-front and the letter u is near-back. The letter i is
unrounded while the letter u is rounded. In the examples below, the words under
consideration are in italics.
(175) dustê min .. boçî sile (BS3:9, 10, 12)
dilê min ji ber wî kule
agirê vînê her hile
(176) kincê li sofî çadire (CX2: 20,24)
wî daye ser rêça gure
(177) xonavê teff kirin sunbul (AN1: 25-27)
siḧarê xîv bi bûn sor gul
yamin sot sing u cerg u dil
(178) ew ji zik mak da pilnik bu, şahidî ḧebsa mîsil (BS1:39, 40)
hêşta zaru bû demê ku dîtî ye kuvan u kul
As mentioned, feature rhyme typically requires two sounds having two out of three
features the same. Hence, we probably should consider the rhymes of u and i as being
70 The term ‘near-close’ is found in Diagram 2 and corresponds to use of the term in the IPA vowel chart in
Diagram 3.