Fixed forms from the Arabic and Persian poetic traditions built on a monorhyme running through the whole poem: the ghazal's linked couplets, the qasida's longer ode structure, and the rubaiyat's quatrain stanza. Belongs here: a form whose rhyme scheme and stanza convention originate in this tradition. Does not belong here: a Western quatrain or ode form covered under the narrative and song, or short lyric, groups below.
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1. Ghazal (Wikipedia)
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The ghazal form is ancient, tracing its origins to 7th-century Arabic poetry.
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