A short Persian and Arabic verse form used for occasional, epigrammatic, satirical or didactic verse, structurally identical to a fragment of a qasida or ghazal but standing complete on its own, without the opening rhymed couplet those longer forms require.
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Place of OriginArabia and Persia, classical and medieval periods. 1 StructureA short run of couplets sharing one rhyme carried on the second line of every couplet, but, unlike the qasida or ghazal, with no requirement that the opening couplet itself rhyme internally. 1 Notable ExampleOccasional and satirical qita by the Persian poet Anvari. 1 Connections
Form Of Genre
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Influenced By
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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Qit'a (Wikipedia)
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The qit'a (from Arabic: قطعة, romanized: qiṭʿa, lit. 'fragment' or 'piece') is a form of monorhyme poetry that usually appears in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other associated literature.
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