قِطْعَة اَنْوَری
| 2 زين هَر دُو يَکی کار کُن اَز هَرْچِه کُنی بَس | 1 خواهی کِه بَهينِ دُو جَهان کارِ تُو باشَد |
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zin har do ye | ki kā RO ko | naz har che ko | ni bas |
khā hi ke be | hi ne do ja | hān kā re to | bā shad |
| L L S S | L L S S | L L S S | L L | L L S S | L L S S | L L S S | L L |
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from these two, do one work only of all you do: |
if you want that the best of the two worlds be your work |
| 4 يا فايدَه گير آنْچِه نَدانی زِ دِگر کَس | 3 يا فايدَه دَه زانْچِه بِدانی دِگَری را |
| yā fā y e de | gi rān che na | dā ni ze de | gar kas | yā fā ye de | de zān che be | dā ni de ga | ri rā |
| L L S S | L L S S | L L S S | L L | L L S S | L L S S | L L S S | L L |
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or take benefits [for] that which you don't know from others |
either give benefits of that which you know to others |
This is a qet`e which is just like a ghazal except that the qet`e lacks the AA rhyme scheme peculiar to the first verse of a ghazal. It jumps right in to the BA, CA, DA, EA pattern. It also can be very short or fragmented, hence the name. |
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Pattern of meter :--> Long Long Short Short | Long Long Short Short | Long Long Short Short | Long LongL(ong) is a long syllable, S(hort) is a short syllable and E(xtra)L(ong) is a syllable, usually restricted to the last foot, containing a consonant cluster. A long syllable may contain a consonant + short vowel + consonant OR consonant + long vowel. A short syllable contains a consonant + short vowel. In the older stages of the Persian language, long vowels really were pronounced with a longer duration and short vowels a little shorter, however, this distinction has been lost in the modern language. Today, only a master poetry reader can produce this effect. |
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| Meter (وَزْن ): It is essential to first figure out the meter of a poem before attempting to understand the meaning. This is how you can tell, among other things, where the ezāfe's go and how you can distinguish words whose meaning depends on a tashdid (for example serr ("secret") and sar ("head"). | |||
| Procedure: | |||
| First, mark off the long vowels: ā, i, u, and long diphthongs: ay, aw (but careful if they are followed by a suffix) | |||
| Then, mark off the short vowels: a, e, o | |||
| When you see the pattern, deal with vowels which can be either long or short: | |||
| final "he" unpronounced "he" | |||
| word-final u/o (including the "vāv" meaning "and" in poetry always pronounced (v)o) | |||
| ezāfe's | |||
| any other word-final short vowels | |||
| /i/ + vowel (especially /iyā/) | |||
| tashdid's and hamze's are sometimes made use of and sometimes ignored. | |||
| two Short syllables may be counted as one Long syllable | |||
| The first syllable of a foot may (in certain meters) be short, even if the meter calls for it to be long. | |||
| It takes some juggling to figure out where one syllable ends and the next begins. Learn to ignore spelling--syllabic units transcend word boundaries. | |||
| If you find you have 2 consonants, one-after-another (except "nun" + consonant), you need to break them up by adding a short vowel. However, in the last "foot" or section of the verse, it is ok to have a consonant cluster and that syllable is called "ExtraLong" | |||
| Hacking up the words of a poem to bits and pieces like this is called تَقْطيع /taqti`/ "cutting" in Persian. In English it is called scanning. MORE! | |||
References:Divan-i Anvari (p 412) |
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