Analysis of the poetic passages of the “Devon”
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write your own four-line poem rhyming a-a-a-b with seven-syllable lines (4+3) and mark the caesura groups.
Check: each line has 7 syllables, lines 1–3 rhyme, and line 4 rhymes differently.
2
Compare barmoq and aruz: what each is based on, which is more typical of which period and which dominates in the “Devon.”
Barmoq – number of syllables, dominant in the “Devon”; aruz – long and short syllables, more typical of later classical literature.
3
Find an example of tazod or tanosub in a quatrain or the elegy of the “Devon” (quote only a few words) and explain it.
An example: the pair “night–day” is tazod, “horse–road–saddle” is tanosub (tanosub – harmonious use of related words from one field).
4
Write 3–4 sentences about what you know on the appearance of the term “qo‘shiq.”
Koshg‘ariy first recorded it in the “Devon” and explained it as a poem or qasida.