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Arabic and Persian Metres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

R. P. Dewhurst
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A Few years ago I prepared a statistical comparison of the metres used by Hafiz in his Persian ghazals and those employed by the Urdu poet Atish, which appears in this Society's Journal (JRAS. 1917, p. 383). I have recently, in connexion with the revision of a translation which I made twelve years ago of the Arabic poet Mutanabbi, the publication of which remains delayed by various reasons, mainly financial, completed an analysis of the metres employed by Mutanabbi. In Dieterici's edition of Mutanabbi there are 287 separate poems of varying length, the average being about 19 baits. The metres of these poems arranged in order of frequency are as follows:—

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Islamic Section
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 56 , supplement S1 , October 1924 , pp. 271 - 276
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1924

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