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09:55 Dec 13, 2009

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

English term or phrase: couplet

Definition from The Poetry Archive :
A couplet is a stanza (or even a poem) consisting of two lines. These need not rhyme, nor be the same length, but can be. If there is no enjambment at the end of the second line, it can be called a closed couplet (the opposite being an open couplet), especially if this is a recurring pattern.

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Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. Wikipedia
Elaine Feinstein's 'Urban Lyric' has an individual aspect of the scene in each couplet, each of which is linked, however, to the adjacent aspects. The Poetry Archive
Elementary students rhyme, write couplets, make and paint clay pumpkins, and write pumpkin poems during a reading lesson about The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin. suite101.com

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shair

papakhan

Sher

M. Zeeshan

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shair

Definition from own experience or research:
two verses of a poem in immediate succession

Example sentence(s):

zahra e sani ki jaga shair main aap saani e zahra (as) istamal kijay shair main tehrao ajay ga. - hallagulla

papakhan
Local time: 09:02
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Sher

Definition from Wikipedia:
Sher (couplet) consists of two lines (Misra); first line is called misra-e-oola and the second is called misra-e-sani.

Example sentence(s):

Poetry or Shaayaree, essentially comprises couplet, or Sher. The plural for Sher is Ashaar. The form ghazal is a collection of mulitiple ashaar - each of which should convey a complete thought without any reference to other shayari of the same ghazal. In fact, though belonging to the same ghazal, the different ashaar therein can have completely different meaning and tone relative to one another. - Wikipedia
...Ek aur sher muze yaad aaya hai. Jara gaur pharmaaiyega.. "Ragon mein daudte phirne ke hum nahi.n kaayal, Jab aankh hi se naatapkaa to phir lahoo kyaa hai." ...I remember another relevant couplet. Listen to it carefully.. "We are not the ones whose blood runs in their veins, When it doesn't flow from the eyes, what kind of blood is it?" ( Translation is mine ) - Ebazm
The legend has it that he (Mirza Ghalib) changed his pen name to ‘Ghalib‘ when he came across this sher (couplet) written by another poet: Asad us jafaa par butoN say wafaa ki mire sher shabaash rahmat Khudaa ki Translated Version: Asad worshipped idols after being betrayed. my poems(thank you,)are, the mercy of GOD. - Mirza Ghalib

M. Zeeshan
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Local time: 09:02
Native speaker of:

Urdu,

Pashto (Pushto)

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