Nazm is a major genre of Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi poetry, normally written in rhymed verse though also composed in modern prose style poems; the other major genre alongside it is the ghazal.
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Place of OriginSouth Asia (Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi literary tradition) 1 Notable ExampleFaiz Ahmad Faiz, listed among Urdu literature's notable nazm poets. 1 Defining TraitAn Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi poetic genre with no fixed restrictions on size or rhyme scheme, in which every verse is thematically interlinked around a single controlling idea. 1 Connections
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A nazm can be long or short and there are no restrictions on size or rhyme scheme. All the verses written in a nazm are interlinked.
Urdu nazm poets section, list of notable poets
Notable nazm poets include:
Nazeer Akbarabadi
Majeed Amjad
Syed Waheed Ashraf
Kaifi Azmi
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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is a major part of Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi poetry that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose-style poems.
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Nazm is a significant genre of Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi poetry
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