Radif and its Diversity in Odes of Sanaei

Radif, that exclusively has been used in Persian poetry and invented by Iranian poets has had an attractive effect on poems and the poets regarded it as an indication of their power in writing poems.The trace of Radif has been seen since the second century of Hijra and even since the earlier history of Iran.This eloquent element is remarkably important, and statistically is the most frequent artistic element in poetry.Out of Sanaei 407 odes, 50.5 percent have radif. Sanaei after Adib Saber has used the most radifs in his odes and mostly his radifs constitute several prosodic foots. Therefore, they have multiplied the musical characteristics of his verses. Furthermore, most of his radifs have more than one word and he sometimes uses a pseudo-sentence and even a sentence. Sanaei more than any other Persian poet likes diversity, fancy and uses different ways in radif. In this article, the researcher tries to give some examples indicating the wide variety of the ways that Sanaei has offered radif.