Sound Figures in Ahmad Khatem’s Ghazals
Sound Figures in Ahmad Khatem’s Ghazals

Summary/Abstract: At the phonostylistic level, and from quantitative and qualitative aspect of euphony, the verse analysis was conducted in regard to sound marking whose function is stylistic, rhythmical and audio. The sound repetitions in the form of phonostylemes were taken as quantitative structures of a poetic work: assonance/ biassonance (vocal reduplication), alliteration or bialliteration (consonant reduplication), assonance/alliteration links (vocal and consonant reduplication), paronomasis (use of words alike in sound but different in meaning), diverse rhyme, and expressive-impressive features of certain sounds, i.e. their acoustic and articulation features. Qualitative structures of vocal layer were examined in two levels of rhythmical perception. The first level is prosodic basis formatted in regard to the basic rhythmic structure-meter, where each verse is analyzed and illustrated on the basis of poetic meter. The second level is rhythmical organization of the verse, which is conditioned in terms of the syntax and represents the poet’s individuality. At this level the innate organization of the verse is illustrated with the position of the pause marked, which represents the distribution of the syntactic units in the verse as an indicator of a naturallike speech rhythm.

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