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The collection is distinguished from later anthologies of classical Japanese poetry not only by its size but by its variety of poetic forms, as it includes not only the 5-7-5-7-7 tanka form, which by the time of the Kokin Wakashū had become ubiquitous, but also the longer chōka form (which included an indefinite number of 5-7 verses and ended ...
Page from the Qur'an manuscript with the fragment of the surah Al-Waqi'a. Kufic script, North Africa, 10th century. Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Right-hand half of a double-page frontispiece of the Mamluk Qur'an with verses 75-77 of the surah Al-Waqi'a in kufic script.
5-7-7: One half of an exchange of two poems; the shortest type of waka [5] Chōka: 5-7-5-7-5-7...5-7-7: Repetition of 5 and 7 on phrases, with a last phrase containing 7 on. Mainly composed to commemorate public events, and often followed by a hanka or envoi. Numerous chōka appear prominently in the Man'yōshū, but only 5 in the Kokinshū ...
Islamic poetry is different in many ways like cultural, Traditions, Literature, etc. Hashem stated, "Islamic religious poetry has been composed in a wide variety of languages". (Deen) poetry is a very important thing in the Islamic religion because poetry has equality of beauty to the Islamic religion.
The Shin Kokin Wakashū (新古今和歌集, "New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern"), also known in abbreviated form as the Shin Kokinshū (新古今集) or even conversationally as the Shin Kokin, is the eighth imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled by the Japanese court, beginning with the Kokin Wakashū circa 905 and ending with the Shinshokukokin Wakashū circa 1439.
A replica of a Man'yōshū poem No. 8, by Nukata no Ōkimi. The Man'yōshū (万葉集, pronounced [maɰ̃joꜜːɕɯː]; literally "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") [a] [1] is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese), [b] compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.
Waaq (also Waq or Waaqa) is the name for the sky God in proto Cushitic religion for several Cushitic languages, including the Oromo and Somali languages. [1] [2] [3] [4]Waaqa (Oromo pronunciation:) still means 'God' in the present Oromo language. [5]
A verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition. [1] However, verse has come to represent any grouping of lines in a poetic composition, with groupings traditionally having been referred to as stanzas. [2] Verse in the uncountable sense refers to poetry in contrast to prose. [3]