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(245) erê ey dil kanê ew gul ka şemal-a geş (BS1:19)
yes O heart where 3D flower where candle-EZ.F bright
u hil
and lit
‘Yes, O heart, where’s that flower? Where’s the bright and lit (glowing) candle?’
In line 7 of Bila..Bila, ‘OK..OK,’ shown in (246), the word kanê is at the end of
the line, after the subject dustê min. I propose that Sindî intentionally diverted from a
normal word order in order to make the end of the line more dissimilar from the ending
he would have had if he used normal word order. The rhyme scheme for this poem is A-
A-X-A. Line 7 is the line that is to be free from rhyming with the other three lines in the
quatrain. The line with normal word order would have been Xudê, kanê dustê min or
perhaps Kanê, Xudê, dustê min. The placement of the vocative would not change the
ending of min, which is very similar to the ending of the rhymed words: diburînim,
diwerînim, and bînim, also shown.
(246) sal bu sal-ê di-burîn-im (BS3:5-8)
year by year-OBL.F IPFV-pass.away.PRS-1SG
‘I’m passing away year by year.’
rundk-a ez lê di-werîn-im
tear-OBL.PL 1D for.3OM IPFV-shed.PRS-1SG
‘I am shedding tears for him.’
Xudê, dust-ê min kanê
God friend-EZ.M 1O where
‘God, where’s my lover?’
kengî ez dê wî bîn-im
when 1D will 3OM see.PRS-1SG
‘When will I see him?’
This discovery shows that in rhymed poems containing obligatory rhyme-free lines,
dissimilarity with end of line rhyme is a technique in Northern Kurdish poetry.
5.4.1.1.12 Use of a prepositional phrase in lieu of a possessive ezafe construction
Nalbend, in separate poems, took the liberty to use a prepositional phrase in lieu
of a possessive ezafe construction. For example, the normal way to express “my flesh and
bone” would be by means of the ezafe construction: -EZ + possessive pronoun, that is, leş