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(185) şahê bazan mîrê qadan wî nebadan hizir u bîr (BS1:43, 44)
‘The king of falcons, the leader of the battlefields―he did not deviate from (his)
ideas and thoughts.’
lew ji hîngê ew li sîngê cane bexşên genc u pîr
‘That’s why since that time he (is) in the heart (chest) of the fresh offerings of the
adolescent and the old.’
Dilê Cegerxwîn, ‘Cegerxwîn’s Heart,’ also contains a couple of instances of
internal rhyme. Cegerxwîn added the rhyme of rişteme with the words xateme and
deyleme, in line 9, and hemdeme, in line 10. These last three words make up the first
three end line rhymes of a quatrain. 71 Rişteme is an additional internal rhyme.
(186) geh rişteme, geh xateme, geh padîşahê deyleme; (CX1:9, 10)
bê yar u dost u hemdeme, lew mest u gerdenxware dil
In another line of the same poem, the beginning words, geh are dil, rhyme with
the words that begin immediately after the midway point, geh tare dil. These may more
properly be considered as interlaced rhyme, discussed below. Also notice the rhyme of
are with ave, in the first hemistich, and tare with tave, in the second hemistich.
(187) geh are dil, geh ave dil, geh tare dil geh tave dil (CX1:15)
Considering the additional positions in which rhyme is found in the verse poetry in this
corpus, one can expect to find similar rhymes, and perhaps others, if one were to conduct
a more extensive survey of Northern Kurdish poetry.
According to Turco, interlaced rhyme is when there is a rhyme between the
center of one line and the center of the previous or following line (Turco 2000:53).
Sindî’s Bîrewerîa Barzanî Yê Nemir, ‘Memories of Immortal Barzanî,’ also contains
many instances of this type of rhyme. In the first example, Sindî rhymed the words
hîvîan, mirîdan and Kurdan.
71 Dilê Cegerxwîin is written as couplets but is best considered a poem written in the çuarkî, or quatrain,
form, because of its rhyme scheme.