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before the subject nêrgiz, ‘narcissus.’ In line 12, bixuînin, ‘sing,’ comes before ‘endelîb,
‘birds.’ Like the lines in the previous example, a deviant word order was repeated,
qualifying it as a grammatical parallelism, which, as mentioned in § 5.4.1.4.1, may also be
viewed as a type of repetitional scheme. Here, too, it is the action that has been fronted.
(338) şîn_bi-b-in nêrgiz ji nu_ve 138 ber der-ê (BS1:11)
grow_IRR-grow.PRS-3PL narcissus from new_again before place-EZ.M
tekî-a
ber-ê
special.music-EZ.F old-OBL.F
‘May narcissuses grow new again before the door of the old places of worship.’
cardin bi-xuîn-in ‘endelîb 139 ew ji ‘şq-a daber-ê (BS1:12)
Again IRR-sing.PRS-3PL birds 3D from love-EZ.F sweetheart-OBL.F
‘Again may birds sing, that (song) from the love of the lover.’
Another prose poem with some lines having parallel structure was Deyka
Dalyayê’s Ji Nazên Te Xerîbim, ‘I Miss Your Childlike Ways.’ In lines 46 through 49,
shown in (339), imperfect verbs are preceded by prepositional phrases using the
preposition digel, ‘with.’ 140 In this instance, the word order is considered normal.
Dalyayê uses the repetition to colorfully describe events over a period of time. The
repetition works to emphasize the bond in the relationship.
(339) digel ba-î di-fir-în u (DD:46-49)
with wind-OBL.M IPFV-fly.PST-1PL and
‘With the wind we were flying and’
digel ruj-ê ava_di-bu-în u
with sun-OBL.F set_IPFV-set.PST-1PL and
‘With the sun we were setting and’
digel şev-ê di-nivist-în u
with night-OBL.F IPFV-sleep.PST-1PL and
‘With the night we were sleeping and’
138 Possible alternative transaltion for ji nuve: ‘from now on.’
139 An Arabic word for a specific type of bird.
140 The prepostion digel here is often written as two words, di gel. I have left it the way it was written in the
original text.