Prosody, Rhyme and Style Issues of the Kemal Pasha-zade’s Poems

Kemal Pasha-zade, one of the important figures of Ottoman history, is also an important poet of Turkish Literature with his famous Turkish works such as D？van, Yusuf u Züleyha and Tevarih-i ？l-i Osman. Unfortunately, serious research has not been conducted about his poetical aspect. In our doctoral thesis on this subject, we tried to shed light on the direction of poet by considering his poems from different aspects such as verse forms, eloquence, content and stylistic features. In this study, by taking advantage of our doctoral dissertation, we tried to reveal the features of Kemal Pasha-zade’s poetry in terms of prosody, rhyme and style. In this study, first of all, the historical and modern sources about Kemal Pasha-zade’s poetry will be pointed out Then the prosody and rhyme characteristics of the poet’s poems will be explained and exemplified in the articles and then the information about the prominent stylistic features of the poet will be given. At the end of this study, the comparison of the provisions given in the sources about the poetry of Kemal Pasha-zade with our own findings will be included