ملخص الدراسة:

The paper aims at uncovering the strategies of rhyme building in the free verse in general and the poem of Nahj El-Burda in particular. It proceeds in two axes: The first provides a theoretical background. It tackles rhyme depending on the linguistic data of the base قفا (Qifa) to uncover it terminologically and traces its realization in the example under discussion. In the second axes, however, the paper applies the results of the theoretical background on the poem of Nahj El-Burda to end up with set of strategies the poem shares with other free verse poems and can be generalized to the whole strategy of rhyme building in the free verse.