Repository path: workshop/translations/hafez-daasht/source.md · rendered 2026-09-09

«حافظ» غزل ۷۷ — the Persian of record

Witness: Ganjoor, Qazvini–Ghani text of the Divan of Hafez, https://api.ganjoor.net/api/ganjoor/poem?url=/hafez/ghazal/sh77, fetched 2026-09-01 (S237); the raw response is at runs/RS-20260901-inversion-habit/raw/ganjoor_sh77.json. Public domain (Hafez, d. c. 1390).

Selection, mechanical and frozen before the poem was read — the script is runs/RS-20260901-inversion-habit/select.py and its output is selection.json. From the frozen 495-ghazal census (runs/RS-20260829-radif-hands/census.json), restricted to the 173 Payne↔Ganjoor matches accepted at S236 (runs/RS-20260831b-radif-hands/match_accepted.json), take the lowest-numbered ghazal satisfying all of:

1. the census records a non-empty radif;
2. the radif was classified finite YES, transitive YES, case-particle NO unanimously by the three blind seats of E-20260831b-radif-hands stage G — the cell framework/v0.2 §7.36.1 called unreachable until 2026-08-31;
3. Payne 1901 carries a repeated English tail at that ode at the 0.80 bar (runs/RS-20260831b-radif-hands/payne_coded.json) — so a published hand who did invert is on record for the same poem;
4. 8 ≤ bayts ≤ 10;
5. the slug is not one of the eight the project has already rendered (sh3, sh4, sh118, sh124, sh130, sh131, sh176, sh187).

Seventeen ghazals qualify. The lowest-numbered is sh77: radif داشت ("had"), 8 bayts, 9 rhyming positions, Payne's ode 69, where he carries a tail at 8 of 8 coded positions.

Payne's page was not opened before the rendering and its log were frozen and committed.

The text

Radif: داشت — third person singular preterite of داشتن, had / held / kept. It stands last at all nine rhyming positions.

Qāfiya: the -ār family — مِنقار · زار · کار · عار · برخوردار · پرگار · خَمّار · زُنّار · الاَنهار.

Two things about this radif that matter to a translator before a line is written. داشت is a finite transitive preterite, so English's rigid verb–object order is the whole obstacle: an English clause cannot end on it unless something puts the object in front. And داشتن is idiomatically wide in Persian in a way that happens to match English have unusually well here — it governs a physical object in the beak (1a), an emotion (عار داشت, had disdain for, 3b), a fortune (4b), a pawned garment (6b) and a Qur'anic manner (8b). The lexical problem that defeated T-hafez-sahar-bolbol-R55-v1 at کرد (one Persian verb, two English verbs, no single collocate) does not arise here. What is left is the word-order problem alone, which is why this poem was worth the selection rule that found it.