Saturday, 6 April 2019

Ghazai- No Example Yet

Rules: the ghazai (pronounced "guzzle") has less than twelve couplets that are united by a rhyme scheme 

Each line has an identical meter. Each couplet forms a complete thought and stands alone, and the overall ghazai often reflects on a theme of unattainable love or divinity.

in the FIRST couplet, both lines in the end in the same short phrase 

after that, the second line of each couplet ends in that same short phrase 
the rhyme occurs BEFORE that phrase, it is an internal mono-rhyme 

in the LAST couplet, the poet usually signs the poem by integrating his pen name 

the ghazai is usually untitled