Is Our Verse Blank? A Research on the Blank Verse and its Function in Persian Literature

Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts

Sohrab  Tavousi ¹ (عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد دز فول ، ایران)

Received: 2016-09-01 Accepted : 2016-09-01 Published : 2014-08-23

Keywords: شعر سپید, احمد شاملو, شعر آزاد, تقطیع عروضی, دوهجایی پنج رکنی, Ahmad Shamlou, blank verse, Free Verse, Scan, Iambic Pentameter,

Abstract :

The question that this article is trying to find an answer for is whether Persian literature has blank verse. By analyzing the definition, history, and scanning what is, in the world literature, called blank verse, and comparing it with what is called blank verse in Persian literature, the article comes to this conclusion that utilizing the title blank verse for the Persian poetry – especially for the inventor of this genre in Iran, Ahmad Shamlou – is an influential misunderstanding. By defining the free verse, this article believes that Shamlou’s poetry can, optimistically, be estimated free verse.