The Strategy of Rhyme Building in Free Verse Ahmed Shawqi’s Poem of Nahj El-Burda as an Example
Abstract
The paper aims at uncovering the strategies of rhyme building in the free verse in general and the poem of NahjEl-Burda in particular. It proceeds in two axes: The first provides a theoretical background. It tackles rhyme dependingon the linguistic data of the base (Qifa) to uncover it terminologically and traces its realization in the example under discussion. In the second axes, however, the paper applies the results of the theoretical background on the poem of NahjEl-Burda to end up with set of strategies the poem shares with other free verse poems and can be generalized to the whole strategy of rhyme building in the free verse.