Abstract
SYMMETRIC SENTENCES IN SİNAN PAŞA’S POETRY
There are 2190 couplets besides prose in Tazarru‘-nâme. It is stated that every kind of insincere and pretended work and faithfulness is worthless. Sinan Paşa holds the rhythm which is made the most distinctive stylistic feature with sentence symmetry as macro scale. In this article 125 symmetric sentence types that are detected in verses of Tazarru‘-nâme will be given with examples, and how Sinan Paşa utilized the symmetric sentences as a rhythmic element will be examined.
Keywords
Sinan Paşa, Tazarru‘nâme, Turkish, sentence, symmetry, rhythm
