A Classification of Children's Oral Poetry of Khorasan, Iran

Songs، rhythmic and poetic texts which are commonly used by the children living in Khorasan province along with those songs and poems recited to them by their parents (in the realm of oral literature–folklore)، require a thorough and scientific classification. The present study has undertaken to offer such a classification based on the application of each text type. These texts are classified into two groups: oral poetic texts without any games. This group consists of poetic texts that adults read for children and poetics texts read by children themselves. The second group are oral poetic texts used in children’s games which consist of: 1) poetic texts used for selecting teammates; 2) poetic texts used in games; 3) poetic texts about the games. The classification methodology used in this study can be adopted as a model for classifying other aspects of the children’s oral literature.