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of the Persians. 



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The Misra ij^-* or hemistich, 

 is a single line composed in one of the nineteen measures. 



The Beit or distich, 



consists of two Misras rhyming together {Mukaffa i }J L '^)' Two 



Misras not rhyming are called a Fard* ^j*- For instance : 



jiii Jvsi cA^f 



Beit. 



Khudawand, Bukshindah wa Dastagir 

 Karimi, Khatabuksh pozish pazir. 



cation, and the application of the feet in scansion or taJcti J^M 2 ^? (lit, cutting.; 

 in pieces). 



Hemistich—Measure Hu>zaj, or Mufailan Mufailan Mufailan Mufailan 

 Dila wasf-i-miyani nazuk-i-janan, i man gufti, 



Persian mode of scansion of the above. 

 Dila WasrL — Mufailan — Miyani na — Mufailan 

 Zuk-i-janan — Mufailan — ni Man gufti — Mufailan* 



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Hemistich — Measure Mutaddrik, or Failan, Failan, Failan, Failan,. 

 Husn o lutfi-tora bandah shud mihr o mah. 



Scansion. 

 Husn-o-lut — Failan — fi-tora — Failan 

 Bandah shud — Failan — Mihr-o-mah — Failan. 



Rules for the quantity of the syllables are laid down with great minuteness in the 

 Persian and A rabic ti'eatises. Sir W. Jones's Persian Grammar contains a short 

 though lucid article ou the subject, to which the reader is referred. 



* Poetical compositions, by the early Persian writers, were classed under three 

 heads, viz. the Kasideh — the Masnavi and the Musammat. In after times they 

 have been divided into eight — viz. the Fard, the Rubdi, the Kita, the Masnavi, 

 the Ghazal, the Kasideh, the Musammat and the Tarji, 



