Extra-regularity in Hamid Mosadeq's Poetry

Extra-regularity’ is one of the devices of de-familiarization in Russian formalism. In this technique a rule is added to the regulations of the language leading to foregrounding in literary texts. The process of Extra Regularity is equivalence in its widest meaning created through verbal repetition which leads to musical tones and enhances the ability of the poet to benefit form language capabilities. In this study, the authors try to examine Hamid Mosadeq’s poetry in regards to Extra Regularity as a literary device through phonological and lexical analysis, in order to see how this technique has assisted Mosadeq to utilize de-familiarization and ultimately to get to foregrounding and a more musical tone in his poems.