Structural and content investigation of lyrical Bayati of Hakimabad, Qasemabad and Sadrabad villages of Zarandieh city (Markazi Province)

Bayati is the predominant form of lyric poetry in the Turkish language. Bayatis have various themes (lyrical, social, historical and religious) and for this reason, they are recited in numerous celebrations and ceremonies. Bayatis are also a mirror of the beliefs, customs, temperament and aspirations of the Turkish-speakers and they are therefore of great importance. Fortunately, in recent years, in the light of popular literature in different parts of the country, good researches have been done on Bayatis, especially the Bayatis of the Azerbaijani people, but a close examination shows the Bayatis on other Turkish-speaking areas, including Zarandieh in Markazi Province. But no special research has been done and for this area, in this article, the villages of Hakimebad, Qasemabad and Sadrabad villages of Zarandieh city have been collected by field method and reviewed by content analysis method (descriptive-analytical approach). In this study, it has been determined that there are more than one hundred Bayatis with different themes in these three villages, but lyrical Bayatis have the highest frequency. These Bayatis, like the Azerbaijani Bayatis, are four-syllable and syllabic, but because in some of them the quantity of syllables is not observed, pause and break play an important role in arranging the melody. Most of them have rhymes; Like many Turkish Bayatis, the first shutters are the introduction and the main theme is expressed in the final shutters. Most of the characteristics of popular poetry, including the simplicity of words and language, the scarcity of literary terms and the uncharacteristic nature of the poet, are generally not much different from the Azeri verses.