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which this false love is carried out. At the end of the poem, Silêman describes what real
love consists of.
Quçan repeated the vocative helo, translated as ‘eagle,’ five times in his free verse
poem Befir Ya Li Vêrê, ‘Snow Is Here.’ He also repeated the word befir, ‘snow,’ nine
times in the poem as he paints a picture of the winter season. In another poem by Quçan,
Birînên Şevên Xwînelo, ‘Wounds of Night Covered in Blood,’ the word xwîn, ‘blood’ and
variations of xwîn appear 16 times. The repetition works to etch into the mind of the
reader just how horrifying were the experiences described throughout the poem.
There were a number of repetitions in Teyb’s poem Kî Dê Merwa Tena Ket?,
‘Who Will Comfort Merwa?’ The subject of the poem, the girl Merwa, and the vocative,
ey Xudayê Mezin, ‘O Great God,’ are each repeated four times. Additionally, seven lines
begin with the interrogative kî, ‘who.’ In these lines the poet is putting forth rhetorical
questions that function as requests to God himself, asking him to intervene on Merwa’s
behalf. The poem also repeats other images and figures, such as comfort, lack of family,
and kîna reş, ‘black malice,’ the cause of Merwa’s desperate situation.
Silêvani repeated the title of his prose poem, Ew Xanîma Henê, 128 ‘That Woman,’
at the beginning of each of the seven stanzas. Additionally, the second line of each stanza
begins with the word ewa, ‘she who.’ Repetition is part of the form and serves to
emphasize the woman who is the focus of the poem. In each stanza the reader learns
something new about her.
In his poem Dergehê Jîn U Hîvî Ya, ‘The Door of Life and Hopes,’ Sindî repeated
the initial two lines of the poem as a refrain in lines 15 and 16, 31 and 32, and the closing
lines, 47 and 48. These lines are reproduced in example (323) below. The repeated lines
remind the hearer of the gravity of the issue being presented.
128 According to my consultant, the word henê is used to “refer to or point to something.” The author could
have simply said xatima henê, leaving off the word ew, a demonstrative here. Perhaps by using both ew and
henê, the statement is emphatic.