NOTE ON THE PROSODY OF THE "GULSHAN I RAZ.” o As before stated (p. v., note), the metre is Hexameter Hazaj Catalectic; the last foot may be fa'úlun as well as mafá'íl. (Blochmann, Persian Prosody, p. 31.) Though written in the classical period, the poem contains many pre-classic forms, e. g. before the nominative, 1. 755; the kasra of the izâfut lengthened to, 1. 832; the preposition with the izáfat, 1. 38; 1, as the ! sign of the genitive, 1. 554; pronominal affixes separated from their verb, 1. 443; the preposition placed after its noun, to which & is prefixed, 1. 109. Contractions are frequent, e.g. bagzasht, 1. 28; bastad, 1. 61; nanháda, l. 161; nabwad, 1. 142; tust for tu ast, 1. 269; batar for badtar, 1. 323; bud for búd, 1. 914; arni for arini, 1. 193; alastub rabbakum, 1. 419; ta'allallá, 1. 13. The tashdid of words like, jo, and is dropped if the metre requires it. (Blochmann, p. iv.) The tashdid is added ob metrum in, 1. 821; and, if the readings in the text are correct, top in 1. 706, and to and in lines 144 and 403. But this is doubtful. (See Blochmann, p. 9.) In 1. 385 the izafat after mute 8 is not sounded. (Lumsden, Persian Grammar, ii. 249.) In 1. 84 and 1. 320 is treated as a mute 8. In 1. 368 and 1. 552 is treated as an alif i waçl. (Blochmann, p. 13.) Blochmann says doubled by an affixed izafat or yae tankir should not be marked with hamza, but the MSS. of this poem mark it with hamza or with tashdid, as in 1. 703; or leave it unmarked, as in 11. 642 and 336. (See Lumsden, ii. 247). Note that hamza is often used when is a single vowel, e. g. 11. 3 and 435. This, according to Blochmann, is its only correct use with Line 347 will not scan as it stands, but the MSS. offer no alternative reading for. Probably here is not sounded, as in C, 1. 305, and siis, l. 544. The MSS. generally insert the hamza, indicating an izâfat or yae tankir, after mute, but sometimes omit it, as in 1. 456. اسم ی بصر سمع خاتمة گرفتم او را گلشن راز ۱۰۰۰ از آن گلشن زبان سوسن او جمله گویاست نرگس او جمله بیناست عيون تامل کن بچشم دل یکایک که تا برخیز و از پیش تو این شک به بین منقول و معقول و حقایق مصفا کرده در علم وقائق منکری منگر در و خوار که گلها گردو اندر چشم تو خار ۱۰۰۵ بچشم نشان ناشناسی ناسپاسیست شناسای، حق در حق شناسیست 198 تا کرم غرض زمین جمله آن تا گرا کنند یاد عزیزی گویدم رحمت بر و با و بنام خویش کردم ختم و پایان الهی عاقبت محمود گردان .MSS ، تم الكتاب بـعـون الـمـلـك الوهاب |