THE POSITION OF DISCOURSE RHYTHM IN PERSIAN POEM

There has been historically a close relation between poetry and meter on one side, and meter and music (lyric) on the other side. These factors led to creating a tight and inseparable relation between poetry and lyric such that made some critics and different literary procedures such as decoders to utter that “poetry is lyric and music before anything else”. Most formers just regarding the face and appearance stated that “poem is a rhymed and metric discourse”. However, every metric, rhymed word cannot be considered as poem; for instance, a book being lyrically written in medicine, mathematics or morality is not referred as poem; rather, it can be called a prose… if rhyme and meter are removed, it is no more different from prose. But, rationalists consider poem as an imagery utterance influencing on people and generating motivation. Such discourse is essentially regarded as poem even it is less metric and rhymed.