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Anthology of Sufi Folk Strophe Poems of Persia the Indian...

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Persian Sufi poetry anthology
Tarjiband and tarikhband forms
Translation by Paul Smith
458 pages of verse
Explores classical poetic structures
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Anthology of Sufi Folk Strophe Poems of Persia the Indian SubContinent Translation Introduction Paul Smith A Persian tarjiband consists of a series of stanzas or strophes each containing a variable but equal, or nearly equal, number of couplets all in one rhyme... as in the ghazal and qasida, these stanzas being separated from each other by a series of isolated rhyming couplets that mark the end of each strophe. If the same couplet (or refrain) is repeated at the end of each band, or strophe, the poem is a tarjiband, or returntie. If on the other hand the couplets concluding each band is different, each rhyming internally in a rhyme different from the preceding and succeeding bands, the poem is called a tarikhband, or compositetie. The mukhammas consists of verses of five lines. In the first verse, all of the lines rhyme. In the verses that follow, the first four lines rhyme with each other and the last line rhymes with the rhymes of the first verse. A close inspection of this form shows that it is also as with the ghazal, a spiral, and probably originated from the ghazal. There are other forms in Persian poetry similar to it, with six (musaddes) and seven lines (musebba) in each verse. In some ways a mukhammas is like an extended form of the ghazal, but is a totally rhymed poem and doesnt have the ghazals freedom, where one can be spontaneous because of the lack of rhyme in the first line of each couplet after the first. The kafi contains a radif or refrain that begins...

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Binding: Paperback;458 pages; Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP; Classification: N/A; Weight: 909.7 g; Dimensions: N/A

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