THE ELEMENTS OF RHYME IN THE POEMS OF A. HAMDİ TANPINAR

The aim of this study is to identify the types of rhyme seen in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s book called “All Poems”. To ensure the richness of sound in his poems, which type of rhyme was chosen by A. Hamdi Tanpınar and how he used this types of rhyme in his poems was explained based on statistical data. Tanpınar wrote his first poems with syllabic but later the stylistic differences in his poems turned to free verse. This perfectionist attitude in his poetry led to the emergence of perfect understanding of poetry. The richness of sound in Tanpınar’s poems was based on rhyme and poet has consciously used rhyme types in his poems. Thus the poems of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar turned into an aesthetic language leaning on rhyme.