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Concerning the issue of changing spellings, as is sometimes done in English
rhymed poetry (e.g. “shower” versus “show’r”), Sindî (2010) says:
If you change the spelling you get something. We call it hozana, ‘poem,’
leng. 31 Leng describes a man who has some difficulty with his legs so that
when he walks, he can’t walk in a normal way. So if you change the
spelling, you’ll get a leng poem. And this is not good for a poet to have a
leng. It’s a handicapped line. You have to change the words and find the
right one which gives the same meaning with the right measurement of the
syllables.
Hence, changing the spelling is not permissible. Sindî affirmed after these comments that
the words a poet uses must exist in one of the subdialects of the language (Sindî 2010).
3.6 Sindî on use of end rhyme
According to Sindî, the qafîa, end rhyme, of a poem is nicer, more musical, if at
least the last two letters are the same. One example he used was the end rhyme of ra in
the words bira, çira and gira. He says that some poets will use the last three letters, but
that such rhyming is so difficult as the more letters you use, the less alternatives you
have. Regarding his own poetry, he says:
I prefer to use two letters because society sometimes needs a lot of music
of the poem, to make them listen to you. This is one of our problems,
when you have a message in your poem. When you really care to make the
people listen to you, you have to put something in your poem to make
them listen. Sometimes it is the meaning, some brave words or sometimes
the music itself. So I have to think in my poem, I have to dance in my
poem to get their attention to make them listen to what I’d like to say.
(Sindî 2010)
31 The word hozan is another word for a poem or poetry. The word Sindî describes here is leng, or lang,
which Chyet (2003:348) lists as meaning ‘lame, limping’ or ‘awkward.’