The content analysis of couplets in Fasa

Abstract Folklore literature indicates the beliefs, ideas, values, life styles, interests, and societal relations of ethnicities. The investigating can clarify the main part of nations' literature and provides findings any aspects of the folklore nature which are not readily found in the study of the recognized literature. Poetry is distinguished from different forms of folklore. Couplets dated back to the earliest days of Persian literary terms and they have been prevalent in various places in Iran. They are popular in Fasa city and the natives have even established a tradition of chehel-beyti (forty verses) recitation there. The aims of this research are to record these couplets and the chehel-beyti tradition, and to analyze their content as well. The most prevalent themes include love, brotherhoods, unfaithfulness, sadness, moaning, and complaint of oldness, death, military service, curse, and determination. The reasons paved the rise of these couplets are illiteracy, poverty, lack of roads, and powerlessness in decision-making.