The place of Balance in rhetorics and the ‎investigation of its status in Anvari’s divan

This article deals with balance and its variety in ‎Anvari’s divan. Balance is one of the verbal devices in ‎rhetorics that creates more music in a poem and results in its ‎charm and charisma. Balance forms from the contrast ‎between the balanced and sometimes parallel rhymes. In this ‎study, we observe other kinds of balance in the Anvari’s ‎divan, which have been dealt with in few rhetorical books ‎and by that we mean the balance in two consecutive distiches, ‎in the way that the first verse of the first distich is in balance ‎with the first verse of the second distich , and the second ‎verse of the first distich is in balance with the second verse ‎of the second distich. The third type is also the case that only ‎the first two verses or the second two verses in the two ‎consecutive distiches are in balance with each other. In this ‎study, we tried to explain them by providing evidence for ‎each of these types.The results suggest that this literary ‎device and its variants in Anvari’s divan are among the most ‎frequent literary arrays which were used. And since Anvari is ‎a panegyrist poet, he took the advantage of using this literary ‎device to have more impact on his audience. ‎