An Analysis of Internal Music in Nima Youshij’s Modern and Semi-Classic Poetry

One of the main features of Nimayi-style poetry (blank verse) in comparison with classical poetry is the change brought to the music of poems, and internal music in specific. The present research is to study, via a descriptive-analytical approach, the use of different types of internal music in Nima Youshij’s modern and semi-classic poems. To do so, the researchers have reviewed briefly the importance of internal music in poetry first, and then have examined and analyzed the different forms of internal music, including rhyming rhythm, pun, repetition, alliteration, and words. The results revealed that the use of assonance and consonance was more than other devices, and “A” (as pronounced in Persian /a:/) is repeated significantly more often, that associates the howl and outcry indicating the awakening and provoking spirit of the poet. On the other hand, while the repletion of clauses, phrases and homophonic puns have been less abundant in his poems, recursive puns appear frequently. Then, it is clear that Nima Youshij consciously has used internal music in his poetry as a way for compensating lack of meter