Music in Khansa's Poetry and Its Connection with Elegy

One of the beauties of a poem is music، and when bearing a connection with the subject، it influences conveying the meaning of the poem to the listener. Khansa is of the greatest poets of the Jaheli Period (before Islam)، famous in elegy. She has many poems in elegy versified for the death of her brothers، Sakhr and Moaviyye. She chooses the most euphonious measures and most appropriate rhymes to express the sorrow and uses beautiful figures of speech (form and sense)، such as “Jenas”، “Tabaaq”، “Saj’”، “Tarsi’”، “Tasmit”، and other musical elements to convey her emotions and inner sorrow to affect the reader and listener. The present study attempts to investigate the music of Khansa’s poems and its connection with the theme of elegy which is the frequent feature of her poetry by means of the Library Method as well as content and structure analysis. Relevant data are taken from Khansa’s poems.