Introducing poems of Iranian folk literature: Evidence from KurmanjiSe-Kheshties

In this article, poems of Iranian folk literature would be introduced both from intra and extra-text perspective. Kurmanji Se-kheshties are poems with threehemistiches that date back to pre-Islamic literature, however, still they are composed and sung in the Khorāsān folk literature. In the Kurmanji language, Se-kheshties are mainly sung and that’s why some bits are added to the original 3hemistiches. These bits have mostly musical function and often they are added to the Se-kheshties to adapt them to the musical Dastgāhs, however they also have semantic-affective function. After investigating 304 Se-kheshties, we examined them according to their music and their semantic-affective background. Meanwhile, we demonstratedthat how these poems could be related to the pre-Islamic literature. In the section on the literature review and appellation of this type of poem, we explained that which researches have been done on this topic up to now.