Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter. The rhymed poetry falls within fifteen different meters collected and explained by al-Farahidi in The Science of ‘Arud. Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as "seas" (بحور / buḥūr). The measuring unit of seas is known as "taf‘īlah" (تفعيلة), and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse (بيت / bayt) of the poem. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the bayt from one meter to another. Also, in rhymed poetry, every bayt has to end with
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| - Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter. The rhymed poetry falls within fifteen different meters collected and explained by al-Farahidi in The Science of ‘Arud. Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as "seas" (بحور / buḥūr). The measuring unit of seas is known as "taf‘īlah" (تفعيلة), and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse (بيت / bayt) of the poem. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the bayt from one meter to another. Also, in rhymed poetry, every bayt has to end with
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| - —Excerpt from Francis Marrash's Mashhad al-ahwal , translated by Shmuel Moreh.
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| - Mention no longer the driver on his night journey and the wide striding camels, and give up talk of morning dew and ruins.
- I no longer have any taste for love songs on dwellings which already went down in seas of [too many] odes.
- If a steamer leaves with my friends on sea or land, why should I direct my complaints to the camels?
- So, too, the ghada, whose fire, fanned by the sighs of those enamored of it, cries out to the poets: "Alas for my burning!"
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| - Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter. The rhymed poetry falls within fifteen different meters collected and explained by al-Farahidi in The Science of ‘Arud. Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as "seas" (بحور / buḥūr). The measuring unit of seas is known as "taf‘īlah" (تفعيلة), and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse (بيت / bayt) of the poem. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the bayt from one meter to another. Also, in rhymed poetry, every bayt has to end with the same rhyme (قافية / qāfiyah) throughout the poem. Researchers and critics of Arabic poetry usually classify it in two categories: classical and modern poetry. Classical poetry was written before the Arabic renaissance (al-Nahḍah). Thus, all poetry that was written in the classical style is called "classical" or "traditional poetry" since it follows the traditional style and structure. It is also known as "horizontal poetry" in reference to its horizontal parallel structure. Modern poetry, on the other hand, deviated from classical poetry in its content, style, structure, rhyme and topics.
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