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Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.
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.
Urdu masnawī are usually divided into three categories- early, middle, and late. Early Urdu masnawī began in the 11th/17th century. In the beginning of this period, many masnawī were religious in nature, but then grew to include romantic, heroic, and even secular stories. Early Urdu masnawī were influenced by Dakkanī literature, as well as ...
The creativity with which a poet incorporates homonymous meanings of their takhallus to offer additional layers of meaning to the couplet is an indicator of their skill. Bahr: Each line of a ghazal must follow the same metrical pattern and syllabic (or morae) count. Other optional rules include:
The letter 'eyn (ع), which is pronounced as a glottal stop in Persian, is always counted in poetry as a consonant, e.g. 'ešq عشق 'love'. [25] Thus like any other consonant it can cause the previous syllable to become long, so that از عشق az 'ešq 'from love' has the scansion – –u.
Love meter, love tester, or love teller may refer to: Hand boiler, a glass sculpture used as an experimental tool to demonstrate vapour-liquid equilibrium, or as a collector's item to whimsically "measure love" Love Tester, a novelty toy made by Nintendo that tries to determine how much two people love each other
The most common meter by far in early poetry is the ṭawīl; the kāmil, wāfir, and basīṭ are also fairly common; the rajaz/sarīʿ (which are sometimes considered to be variants of the same meter) and the mutaqārib occur occasionally; and the others are rarely found.
The 13-syllable meter of the Persian ruba'i (quatrain) is also traditionally analysed as if it was a variety of the hazaj meter, [19] but in reality it is quite different, and evidently has no connection with the meter described above. [20] The meter, which has two versions, differing in the reversal of the 6th and 7th syllables, is as follows: