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What language and poetic metre did Ahmed Yesevi use in Divan-i hikmet?

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Bābur inspecting a garden, portrait miniature from the Bābur-nāmeh, 16th century; in the British Library. — Uzbek literature Bābur inspecting a garden, portrait miniature from the *Bābur-nāmeh*, 16th century; in the British Library.

In the Divan-i hikmet ("Book of Wisdom"), the 12th-century religious poet Ahmed Yesevi utilized a popular vernacular language that incorporated very little Arabic or Persian influence. Regarding the structure of his verse, he employed a Turkic syllabic metre.1