volume Number 10، number In Volume 1، Spring 2017 ، issue Number 35

Couplet in different periods of Persian poetry

Mohammad hoseyn Mohammadi , Ghazal Esmaeeli barzi (Author in Charge)

Abstract
Quatrains and ballads, which are transferred verbally from generation to generation, are valuable heritage of any nation and contain the most original emotions of those people. These poems represent simple pure emotions of people and as they are expressed from the heart, they can deeply influence others. That is why quatrains have survived after hundreds of years. In this paper, we have done a survey on the evolution of Persian poetry couplets in different periods from the beginning up to now. First, we have provided an overview of the most important characteristics and rhythms of this poem structure. Then we have cited examples of couplet poets in every poetry eras from Khorasani style to the contemporary style and have examined them at different aspects: literature, language and thought. At the end, we have provided usage statistics of literary techniques by plotting graphs to facilitate conclusion about couplets. The following are the results of this research: A) The poets who composed quatrains together with the samples of their quatrains. B) To study how much and how this form has been employed by the poets of the different eras and why other poets did not use it. C) To study and find the most distinguished stylistic features of quatrains in literary, linguistic, phonetic and semantic terms during the different stylistic epochs.

Keyword
Quatrains , evolution , ages , mould , rhythm , stylistic features

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