Investigating format- structure features in children songs common in Fars

Common folk songs in Fars from the perspective of the type of audience have a distinct range from other local literature climates. One of the main types of Fars local songs, depending on the type of audience is those poems that have been composed for children and adolescents. And they can be classified under titles such as: lullaby, caressing songs and the songs of play and entertainment.
Since no research has been conducted on investigating format and structure features in common children's songs in Fars as well as the relationship between their structure and content, in this paper, by content analysis method, the format and type of musical function, reliability and shape- verbal repeating elements in Fars children's songs have been analyzed and investigated. The findings of this study show that in mentioned three main types, repeating and sometimes distinct techniques and patterns are found in composing songs and as we approach songs related to the age group of children and adolescents from infant, the importance of music in song's structure has been reduced and the importance of the narrative has been added; also poem's space has been approached a discourse- oriented space and rarely in some songs polyphony from monologue, that the feature is directly related to the type of song's format and their length as well as the application of row, rhyme and requirements available in songs.