Cohesive Devices in Transition Verses of Manoochehri's Ode

Cohesion is significant in creating cohesive texts. Cohesive Devices can be divided to lexical and grammatical factors, each having subcategories. Using cohesive devices in literary texts is quantitatively and qualitatively different to other texts. Yet parts of literary texts such as transition-verses in odes, better demonstrate this difference as the poet attempts to further link the beginning of the ode to the body. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this study investigates the cohesive devices in transition verses of a Khorasani-style representative, Manoochehri. Moreover, based on previous research, an attempt has been made to create a model for examining cohesion in Persian poetry. It was also revealed that 41 of the 57 odes extracted from Manoochehri's poem collection include transition verses. In general, 1007 cohesive devices were discovered in the transition verses of Manoochehri's odes, with lexical cohesive devices (82.32%) outnumbering grammatical cohesive devices (17.67%). Among the subcategories of grammatical cohesive devices, references (11.81%) played the most important role in making this poet’s transition verses cohesive, while conjunctions (0.89%) played the least important role. Collocations (50.54%) were the most frequent lexical cohesive device, whereas syntactic parallelisms (1.29%) were the least frequent.