A Structural Study of the Oral Heritage of KurdishLiterature (Case study: Verse of Saidawan)

Structural analysis of oral works of literature and studying it's in the text elements as well as finding proportionate patterns of poetry, contributed to the better understanding of nature of literature and it could be helpful in developing the processing patterns in the rest of literary types. In present study, the verse of Saidawan as a prominent Kurdish oral story is analyzed based on the structural patterns. The purpose of this study is to get to know the Kurdish oral literature better and to investigate and analyze the structure of work based on the main structural patterns. The study has been conducted based analytical method in the liberary and indicates that the narrative structure of story of Saidawan conforms the structuralisms’ theory.