Radif and its place in the Divan by Masihi Tabrizi

Abstract

The article discussed radifs used in the divan – lyrical poems by Masihi Tabrizi, a poet of the XVI century which have not been studied since present and their place in text, role and poetic function. It is noted that radifs used by the poet shows the circumstances in terms of content, its rhyme, harmony and intonation. The diversity and variety of the lines used in Masihi’s poem draw the attention. This can be seen in the number of words those radifs contain, the parts of speech they belong to, and whether they contain native or loanwords. Masihi created rhythm and harmony in his poems both through the original radifs by him and through the radifs he creatively benefited from his predecessors. It is important to research the poet’s divan from this perspective in studying the radif system in medieval Azerbaijani divan poetry.