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‘They became captives and prisoners of people―my pride (self-respect) did not
come.’
ma-m di ’îşq-a wê şepal-ê sil u (BS5:2)
remain.PST-1SG in love-EZ.F 3OF wave-EZ.M ill.temper and
zîz-a min ne-hat-Ø
discontent-EZ.F 1O NEG-come.PST-3PL
‘I remained in love with her―my wave of ill temper and discontent did not come.’
Epistrophe was also used throughout much of another poem. In Cegerxwîn’s Dilê
Cegerxwîn, ‘Cegerxwîn’s Heart,’ the word dil, ‘heart,’ is line-final in the initial two lines,
the final two lines, and every even numbered line. The word ew, 3D, a referent of dil, is
also repeated twice at the end of lines and four times at caesuras. While the lines of this
poem are written as couplets, the form of each couplet is that of a quatrain. See § 5.3.1.1
for the discussion of the form of this and other quatrain poems.
Another mode of repetition in this poem is the placement of the subjects dil and
ew (which refers to dil) after the copula in equative and attributive clauses, previously
discussed in § 5.4.1.1.2. Lines with repetition of constituent order deviation would
classify such repetitions as instances of grammatical parallelism, a topic discussed in
§ 5.4.1.4.2. In line 13 of the poem, shown in (320), the subject ew, 3D, follows zozane, ‘is
a summer pasture,’ and Wane, ‘is Van,’ a city in Turkey is also followed by ew. In line
14, shown in line (321), ew follows westane, ‘is kneeling,’ and dil, ‘heart,’ follows
zinare, ‘is a massive rock.’
(320) geh çol=e geh zozan=e (CX1:13)
at.times waste=COP.PRS.3SG at.times summer.pasture=COP.PRS.3SG
ew geh Dêrik u geh wan=e ew
3D at.times Dereek and at.times Wan=COP.PRS.3SG 3D
‘At times it is the wilderness, at times the summer pasture, at times Dereek and at
times it is Wan,’
126 Chyet (2003) lists serfiraz as ‘proud’ and serfirazî as ‘pride’ or ‘self-respect.’ Sindî has ser feraz as
separate words, perhaps making it a prepositional phrase, as ser is a preposition that means ‘on.’ However,
ser can also be a noun meaning ‘head.’ There is no listing for feraz by itself. Rendering it as ‘pride’ seems
to be the most fitting translation.