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  2. Bahr (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    This is a ten-syllable bahr and by the standards of Urdu poetry, is a chotii (small) bahr. As with the scansion of Persian poetry, a syllable such as miid or baat consisting of a long vowel plus consonant, or sharm consisting of a short vowel and two consonants, is "overlong", and counts as a long syllable + a short one. [3]

  3. Doha (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Doha (Urdu: دوہا, Hindi: दोहा, Punjabi: ਦੋਹਾ) is a form of self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed in Mātrika metre. This genre of poetry first became common in Apabhraṃśa and was commonly used in Hindustani language poetry. [1] Among the most famous dohas are those of Sarahpa, Kabir, Mirabai, Rahim, Tulsidas ...

  4. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.

  5. Urdu ghazal - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu ghazal is a literary form of the ghazal-poetry unique to the Indian subcontinent, written in the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language. It is commonly asserted that the ghazal spread to South Asia from the influence of Sufi mystics in the Delhi Sultanate .

  6. Common metre - Wikipedia

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    Common metre or common measure [1] —abbreviated as C. M. or CM—is a poetic metre consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The metre is denoted by the ...

  7. Hazaj meter - Wikipedia

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    The underlined syllables are "overlong", that is, they count as equivalent to a long syllable plus a short one, a typical feature of Persian verse, imitated in Turkish and Urdu poetry, but not found in Arabic. The meter of the do-baytī is similar to this, except that – u or – – may sometimes be substituted for the initial u –. [15]

  8. Category:Poems in Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Poems in Urdu" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Banjaranama; G. Gulshan-i ...

  9. Category:Urdu-language poetry - Wikipedia

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    Articles about Urdu poetry. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. P. Poems in Urdu (6 P) Poetry by Mirza Ghalib (1 P)