Rhyme in the Diwan of Bâkî

Rhyme that provides fluency, music and integrity of the pieces once became an indispensableelement of the poem. The alteration in pleasure and conception manifested itself in the elements of the poemas well. The viewpoints on the rhyme have changed in different eras of our literature though there aren’tsharp borders among them. The common view, though, is that rhyme adds sound, harmony and music to thepoem. In one era of our literature, they were unduly attached to the rhyme, however; they were likely todisregard it in another era. The conception of rhyme of the classical literature artists who used the languageof the poem as meticulously as to be almost perfect in some eras arouses interest. The conception of rhyme inclassical literature depends on letter basis. Coordination of the letters that form the rhyme in couplets andcooperation of the vowel points are of vital importance for the rhyme. The classical literature artists whopearly embroidered their works elaborately chose the words to form the rhyme. The aim of this work is toresearch the conception of rhyme in classical literature and to publish the way that Bâkî, an outstanding poet,used the rhyme in his diwan to the science world. The meaning of the rhyme, the letters of the rhyme, thevowel points of the letters of the rhyme and the types of rhyme have been mentioned in this study. In light ofthis information, the verse types in Bâkî’s diwan have been evaluated in terms of rhyme types, the rhymetypes have been classified under two major titles giving the ‘matla’ couplets of the verse types and the wholediwan has been scanned. During classification, evaluations have been made after every type of verse. Anoverall evaluation has been made after classification and finally the rhyme flaws in Bâkî’s diwan have beenmentioned. After the research, Bâkî’s ingenuity in the poem has been laid bare once again.