Prosodic Analysis of the Elegy for Andalusia by Abu al-Baqa al-Rundi (قصيدة رthاء الأندلس لأبي البقاء الرندي)

Abstract

This research examines the prosodic scansion of the verses in the elegy poem for Andalusia by Abu al-Baqa al-Rundi, which consists of 42 lines. The theory used to analyze the issue in this research is prosody (Arud). The research methodology employed is the descriptive-analytical method, focusing on the elisions and inflections (al-zihafat wa al-ilal) present in the poem. The results show that the poetic meter used is the al-Basit meter. The poem contains 135 elisions (zihaf) and 43 inflections (illah). The breakdown of the elisions is: 55 khabn in the Mustaf'ilun meter, transforming it into Mutaf'ilun, and 80 khabn in the Fa'ilun meter. The breakdown of the inflections is 43 qat' in the Fa'ilun meter, transforming it into Fa'lun.