Rhymed Prose

Rhymed prose is a literary form and genre written in unmetrical rhymes, known across many different cultures and, in modern literary traditions where the boundary between poetry and prose has grown broad, sometimes described as both at once. Its named traditions include the Arabic saj', called the earliest form of artistic speech in Arabic and reaching back to pre-Islamic times, the elaborate Arabic maqama that influenced Persian, Turkish and medieval Hebrew literature, the Chinese fu of the Han dynasty, which combined rhyme and prose with variable line lengths and parallelism, and the Russian rayok, a kind of jesting rhymed prose.