Quatrain is one of sub forms of formal literature and perhaps is the most important ancient form of folk poetry and local literature. Local poets and Fars land people have long been familiar with this form and a considerable number of traditional quatrains among the public speakers of Persian language and literature has been written by historical Fars poets. In this paper, while the frequency, practices and techniques of using rhyme and row in more than 1100 traditional quatrains among Fars people have been examined by an analytical- descriptive method, differences and similarities of using rhyme and row in these poems have been derived and analyzed compared to formal literature.
The result of this study is that Fars local quatrains rows' structure are not very complicated; the point where being personal and memory-based concept is compatible with knowledge, compose environment and poems' concepts narrative. Also poets and poems' narrators (in composing or reading quatrains) have used distinct eight main tricks with formal rhyme rules to simplify their poems' rhymes.

Keywords: quatrain, folk poems, rhyme, row, Fars local literature

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