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5.5 Summary
In this chapter I analyzed the corpus of poems in Appendix A on two levels. On
the phonological level, I discussed verse forms (§ 5.3.1), syllable count (§ 5.3.2) and
various types of rhyme (§ 5.3.3). A couple of the more uncommon findings include an
innovative form for rhymed verse (§ 5.3.1.4), multisyllabic rhyming sequence
(§ 5.3.3.1.3), and the presence of consonant and vowel feature rhyme (§ 5.3.3.1.5). On the
syntactic level, I demonstrated that Northern Kurdish poets sometimes deviate from
normal constituency order at both the sentence and phrasal levels (§ 5.4.1.1). I also
discussed instances of ellipsis, some of which are natural in the language (§ 5.4.1.2). In
some situations, discussed in § 5.4.1.3, a poet was found to have capitalized on certain
freedoms in the language, such as the placement of an adverbial clause. In other
situations, I conjectured that I found instances where poets utilized a word from a
subdialect of Northern Kurdish that is likely outside their particular area―that is, outside
their own spoken language. In § 5.4.1.4 where I discuss constructional schemes, the
dialogue is dominated by instances of repetition. I also provide in this section examples
of parallelism, a less common feature in Northern Kurdish poetry. Lastly, I discuss the
issues of neologism (§ 5.4.1.5) and shortened phrases (§ 5.4.1.6). The analysis as the
whole provides the reader with many insights concerning poetic features in Northern
Kurdish poetry.
144 A partridge hunter uses a patridge to catch other partridges.