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One may safely say of Persian polite literature that nearly all major works are composed in verse, and that only very recently does this phenomenon appear to be undergoing a change. In Iranian folk-literature, on the other hand, the reverse is true - most types are composed and transmitted in prose, while a smaller proportion is in verse.
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Darmesteter, Afghan Life in Afghan Songs, 3; Darmesteter, Chants populaires des Afghans, ex ci, cxciii, cxciv; contemporary Afghan folk-poetry published by Lebedev, ‘Afganskaya poeziya’, in Voprosïyaz. i liter, stran Vostoka, pod red. Y. V. Rozhdestvenskogo (M. 1958), 258–273; Dvoryankov, N. A., ‘Malang Dzhan - nar. poet Afganistana’, KSIA, xxxvn (M. i960), 60–75; cf. also Belyayev, V., Afganskaya narodnaya muzïka (M. i960); Gerasimova, A.-Girs, G., Literatura Afganistana (M. 1963), 10–25; perhaps the Afghan dums are in some way connected with the gipsies in NW- India and Pakistan; similar schools also exist elsewhere, e.g. in Kurdistan, cf. Nikitine, Les Kurdes, 273–274.
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Rypka, J. (1968). Verse Forms of Folk-Literature. In: Jahn, K. (eds) History of Iranian Literature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3479-1_41
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