Towards a Unique Model of Rhyme Classification in Bosniak Divan Poetry

The Example of Sabit Užičanin’s Poetry

Abstract

The rhyme in the Divan literature poetics has its peculiar place, and especially so in the structural poetics; however, it should not be observed isolated, but as an integral part of the wholeness of a poetical work. This study tries to present a phenomenon of richness and diversity of rhyme in Bosniak divan literature on the example of Sabit Užičanin’s poetry, by searching for a unique model of rhyme analysis from different linguostylistic aspects which is going to be as wide as possible. Such a model of analysis contains a graphostylistic approach to analysis and rhyme classification which is dominant in Classical Ottoman stylistics. The reason for such an approach is simple: the rhyme in Divan poetry is not expressed only on a graphostylistic level of text analysis of any poem, but it represents a phenomenon that is reflected onto a whole structure of every poem, singularly on almost every linguostylistic level of analysis. This study points to over hundred types of rhyme in Sabit Užičanin’s poetry only. A model for rhyme classification in Divan poetry suggested here is only a sample model that allows for a further widening in analytical and deepening in literary theoretical studies.