Stylistic and Rhythmic Equivalence in Machine Translation of Poetry

This article examines stylistic and rhythmic equivalence in machine translation of poetry through a critical synthesis of translation theory and recent research on large language models. It distinguishes semantic correspondence, stylistic organisation, and rhythmic patterning while emphasising their interaction in constructing poetic meaning. Equivalence is understood as justified correspondence between significant source-text relations and their reorganisation in the target language. The discussion argues that lexical accuracy, metre, and rhyme require coordinated assessment rather than isolated evaluation. It outlines principles for interpretive revision and situates them within Persian–Azerbaijani translation research. These principles constitute a conceptual proposal whose applicability requires subsequent empirical investigation using bilingual textual analysis.