Investigating Phonetic Balance in Sultan Walad's Ghazals

The music of poetry is what makes the verse interesting. This factor is manifested in a unique way in Sultan Walad Ghazals, which is highly represented in the phonetic balance. The poet has increased the variety in rhythm using quantitative balance regarding metric features and using different meters. Sultan Walad has created special kind of rapture and fascination in his Ghazals using the cyclic meter in a way that cyclic meter is most frequent in the fast rhythms of this kind of poem. In the application of qualitative phonetic balance, he uses repetition, and by repeating different Persian vowels and consonants he has increased the aesthetic feature of his Ghazals. The long vowel /a/ is very frequent while /o/ is the least frequent vowel in his use of repetition. Sultan Walad has created rhythmic aspects in his poems by the application of vowel and consonant repetition while the most frequent repetition is in the initial consonant and the least frequent is the repetition of the initial vowel and consonant. The poet's use of repetition is more obvious in the rhyme. Therefore, it can be said that Sultan Walad has created a special kind of music in his Ghazals using different kinds of balance, regarding same sounds (including consonants), and same letters which can be studied from different aspects. An analytical-descriptive method is used in this research through which we have identified phonetic balance in Sultan Walad’s Ghazals, and in addition to analyzing each, we measured and showed the frequencies using charts and tables.