Musaddas () is a genre of
Urdu
Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...
poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-
sestain- (''misra''). Famous early writers employing this form are
Mir Anis
Mir Babar Ali Anees (, 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, Urdu, Arabic, and Sanskrit words in h ...
and
Dabeer.
Maulana Altaf Husain Hali and
Waheed Akhtar 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
References
Urdu-language poetry
Indian poetics
Stanzaic form
Pakistani poetics
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