Persian poetic meter is described as quantitative, using syllable length as the building block for its verse patterns. However, besides syllable length, Persian is characterised by a stress system, which is independent of its syllable length. It is also understood that although stress is determined lexically, the grouping of lexical items within a sentence affects the placement of syllabic stress. An insight we can add to this discussion comes from the nature of rhymes in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh.
Some field data I’ve collected over 3 days in the village of Abduyi, which lies about 50km West of Shiraz and where a dialect of Kurdish is spoken (an unexpected location given that Kurdish-speaking areas are 700km to the North)
