musaddas

Islamic literature

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In Islamic arts: Other poetic forms
…a six-line stanza known as musaddas became the form used for the mars̄īyeh (dirge for the martyrs of Karbala). Because it had come to be associated with lofty feeling and serious thought, musaddas later was used for the first reformist modern poems.
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In South Asian arts: Mars̄iyeh
…Mīrzā Dabīr, who together established musaddas (a six-line stanza with an aaaa bb rhyme scheme) as the preferred form for mars̄iyehs and added several new topics and details to the ranks of associated themes, thus carrying the form beyond a simple lament. An interesting aspect of these elegies is that,…
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