…the poem was called a tarjīʿ-band (literally “return-tie”); when the linking verse was varied, the poem was called a tarkīb-band (literally “composite-tie”). True stanzas of varying lengths were also invented. Among these, mainly in Urdu and Chagatai, a six-line stanza known as musaddas became the form used for the mars̄īyeh…
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