हास्य· Hasya
01ग़ज़ल हो गई
Ghazal Ho Gayi
Alhad Bikaneri
4 verses · ~6 lines · 1 min
Humor · Plate: A Dry Feast
Form · 04 of 15
ग़ज़ल
Ghazal
Couplets that stand alone, tied by a refrain.
हर शेर अपनी राह चलता है।
A ghazal is a run of couplets, called sher, each one complete in itself, sharing a rhyme and a repeating phrase at the end of the line. It came into Hindi from Urdu and Persian, and poets like Dushyant Kumar have used it for everything from love to protest.
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- Typical read
- 0.6 min
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- Shringara
Anatomy of a ghazal
Sher: one couplet that stands on its own.
Radif: the phrase that repeats at the end of the second line of every sher.
Qafia: the rhyming word just before the radif.
Matla and maqta: the opening sher, where both lines carry the rhyme, and the closing sher, often with the poet's pen name.
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