A Persian and Arabic verse form of rhyming couplets, each couplet free to establish its own new rhyme rather than carrying one rhyme through the whole poem, which frees the form for great length and made it the standard vehicle for extended narrative, romantic, mystical and didactic poetry across the Persianate world.
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Place of OriginPersia, flourishing from the 11th century onward across the Persianate literary world. 1 StructureRhyming couplets (each line-pair AA, BB, CC...), with no rhyme carried between couplets, permitting indefinite length. 1 Notable ExampleRumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, both major masnavi-form works. 1 The Masnavi
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Princeton University Press- Place of Origin: Persia, flourishing from the 11th century onward across the Persianate literary world.
- Structure: Rhyming couplets (each line-pair AA, BB, CC...), with no rhyme carried between couplets, permitting indefinite length.
- Notable Example: Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, both major masnavi-form works.
Masnavi (Wikipedia)
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The Masnavi is an extensive Persian masnavi (a poetic form) written by Rumi, and one of the most influential works in the history of Sufism.
Wikipedia: The Conference of the Birds
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The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Arabic: منطق الطير, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem, in the mathnawi form, by Iranian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.
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