Repetition; the Stylistic Feature of Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrahīm ‘Irāqī’s Lyrics

This study scrutinizes different types of repetition in Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrahīm ‘Irāqī’s Lyrics . The hypothesis of this paper is that the repetition is one of the stylistic features of the poet. By adopting the inductive approach, the authors of the present research have extracted, discussed and categorized diverse repetition in ‘Iraqi’s Lyrics. The results showed that repetition in ‘Irāqī’s Lyrics include: assonance (phoneme and syllable repetition) being the most common phonetic phenomenon and the other part which is crystalized in prosodic meter.  Lexical repetition, to say the repletion of morpheme, prefix, phrase, and sentence reinforce external music (Radif and rhyme) and internal music (different types of Badi’). Syntactic repetition (repetition of grammatical structures) being accompanied by parallelism and leonine verse makes salient the internal music of poem and each grammatical symmetry renders its theme or imagery more prominent. By Semantic repetition we mean repetition of interchangeable words in paradigmatic axis. ‘Irāqī takes the advantage of this trick in order to highlight his core image and manipulative load of some words in his poems.