Musaddas () is a genre of
poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-
sestain- (''misra''). Famous early writers employing this form are
Mir Anis
Mir Babar Ali Anees ( ur, مير ببر على انيس) (1800–1874), also known as Mir Anees was an Indian Urdu poet. He used his pen-name (takhallus) of Anees (Urdu: , ''Anees'' means "close friend, companion") in poetry. Anees used Persian, ...
and
Dabeer.
Maulana Altaf Husain Hali and
Waheed Akhtar
Syed Waheed Akhtar ( ur, ) (12 August 1934, in Aurangabad (Deccan) – 13 December 1996) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher.
Works
According to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, "Wahid Akhtar, regarded by m ...
are other well-known poets to find expression in this form of poetry. Particularly iconic is Hali's Madd-o-Jazr-e-Islam as an exemplary of this form.
"The form of the Musaddas"
Columbia University. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
See also
* Mukhammas Mukhammas (Arabic مخمس 'fivefold') refers to a type of Persian or Urdu cinquain or pentastich with Sufi connections based on a pentameter. And have five lines in each paragraph.
It is one of the more popular verse forms in Tajik Badakhshan, oc ...
References
Urdu-language poetry
Indian poetics
Stanzaic form
Pakistani poetics
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