Rhythmic Elements and Their Implications in Qasideh-e Al-Entefazeh by SamihAl-Qasim

Musicis the most important tool in poetic structure and one of the brilliant factors which distinguishes poetry from other literary techniques. Rhythmic element has a semantic and expressive power and a special importance in creating overall atmosphere of poetry and its structuralcoherence. The present research aims to explore rhythmic structure, elements and implications of music in Ode“Gasideh-e Al-Entefazeh”by SamihAl-Qasim. The ode comprises various musical elements which absorb and accompany the reader with the poet’s emotional state. In this research, rhythmic structure of the ode is studied through analyzing some rhythmic phenomena such as poetical meter, principles changes (Zahafat) and reasons, rhyme and whatever related to these phenomena. Also, some other musical phenomena likerounded line, poetical line, contrast, parallelism and repetition are studied. The descriptive-analytical and statistical methods using the analysis of ode details and separating its rhythmic elements to extract its semantic and aesthetic value have been used in this research. During the present research, it is specified that all rhythmic elements have a dominant role to have richer rhythmic and semantic structure of the ode and they have causedcoherence of its structure, totalizing ode uniformity and its enjoyment from a beautiful and musical structure.