Prosodic study of Badr Shakir al Sayyab’s poetic volume “Song of Rain
Abstract
Badr Shakir al Sayyab (1926-1964) died at just thirty-eight
but was a leading Iraqi poet, well known throughout the Arab
world. He was born in Jekor, a town in the south of Basra. He was
dismissed from his teaching services for being a member of the
Iraqi communist party. He gave the Arabs his best poems in “The
Rain Song” (1954) as well as in others. His work has been
translated into more than ten languages including English,
Persian, Somali and Urdu.
Badr Shakir’s metrical experiments on the new rhythms
helped him change the course of modern Arabic poetry. He
decided to abandon the old system of prosody, and in its place
adopted a system that used variable length of lines, patterns ofassonance and repetition instead of the usual end rhyme. Thus at
the end of 1940s, he launched the “Free Verse Movement”
together with Nāzik al-Malā ikah1
.
His "The Rain Song" contains thirty-two romantic poems.
This article is a metrical study of the analyses of fifteen of them
with the help of statistics. All these are prosaic poems except "The
Elegy of the Gods” which has the traditional form of qaṣīdah.
رمثة شاهد, د.سلمة فردوس سهو. (2018) دراسة عروضية لديوان بدر شاكر السيّاب "انشودة المطر", Majallah Al-Qism Al-Arabi, Volume 25, Issue 1.
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