A Nazire Issue: The Groundwork Poem of Şeyhî and Nesîmî's Gazels with the "Yok" Rhyme

Abstract

In Classical Turkish literature, one of the indicators of a poet's influence is the nazires. The number of zemin (primary) poems a poet has indicates and how many poets have adapted a poet's works reveals his literary influence. The literary influence can be detected and followed through the similarity of rhyme and repeated rhyme, elements of a nazire. In the studies so far, such an evaluation has been made on the poems of Nesimi and & Scedil;eyhi with the rhyme "yok". In this study, the issue of which is the ground poem of the poems with the rhyme "yok" was evaluated by taking into account the poem written with the same rhyme by Ahmedi, who lived in the same period as Nesimi and & Scedil;eyhi. For this purpose, the divans of the 14th and 15th century poets were searched and poems with the rhyme "yok" were compiled. In addition to the nazire elements of the poems, historical and social data were also evaluated and their qualities of being a groundwork poem were examined.