Ghazal

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Azerbaijani poet

Large collection of poems by Rumi

Indian author

In the poetic traditions of the Islamic East, particularly in Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazals, the radīf (from the Arabic linguistic root , meaning 'the one riding behind') refers to a specific word or short phrase that must consistently end each line of the opening couplet and the second line of all subsequent couplets.

In Arabic, Persian, Turkic, and Urdu poetry, the matla (from Arabic , lit. 'rising place'; ; ; ; ; ) is the first bayt, or couplet, of a classical poem such as a qasida or a ghazal. In this sense, it is the opposite of the maqta'.

Indian poet (1949–2001)

meter in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry

The maqta (from Arabic: , literally 'the place of cutting' or 'ending'; ; ; ; ; ) is a classical prosodic term referring to the concluding verse or section of a poem.

1960 film

Indian poet

upright=1.25|thumb|Nusrati writing the Gulshan-i ʿishq, from a manuscript of 1743 Muḥammad Nuṣrat (died 1674), called Nuṣratī ('victorious'), was a Deccani Urdu poet.

Qāfiya (from Arabic: , ; ; ; ; ) is the classical Islamic prosodic term for rhyme.