Arabic mutaqārib metre
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The Arabic mutaqārib metre is a classical Arabic poetic meter characterized by a specific repeating pattern of long and short syllables, widely used in pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic poetic metre
ⓘ
classical Arabic poetic metre ⓘ |
| analyzedIn | Arabic prosodic theory ⓘ |
| basedOn | long and short syllables ⓘ |
| belongsToSystem | ʿarūḍ (Arabic prosody) ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
basīṭ metre
ⓘ
kāmil metre ⓘ ṭawīl metre ⓘ |
| developedInLanguage | Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeScansion | – u – – repeated four times per hemistich ⓘ |
| hasArabicName | المتقارب ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Arabic quantitative verse metre ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Arabic oral and written poetic tradition ⓘ |
| hasDiscipline |
studied in Arabic philology
ⓘ
studied in comparative metrics ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
allows limited substitutions of syllable length
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highly regular rhythmic pattern ⓘ |
| hasFootName | faʿūlun ⓘ |
| hasFootPattern | faʿūlun faʿūlun faʿūlun faʿūl ⓘ |
| hasFootPatternVariant | faʿūlun faʿūlun faʿūlun faʿūlun ⓘ |
| hasHemistichPattern | faʿūlun faʿūlun faʿūlun faʿūl (per hemistich) ⓘ |
| hasLearningMethod | memorized through metrical circles and examples ⓘ |
| hasMeaningOfName | the approaching (metre) ⓘ |
| hasNotationSystem | represented using tafʿīlāt (metrical feet names) ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfFeetPerVerse | eight feet per full verse ⓘ |
| hasOriginPeriod | pre-Islamic era ⓘ |
| hasPoeticFunction | supports formulaic and thematic repetition in qaṣīda ⓘ |
| hasProsodicNotation | – u – – | – u – – | – u – – | – u – ⓘ |
| hasQuantityType | quantitative metre ⓘ |
| hasRhythmicEffect | march-like, forward-driving rhythm ⓘ |
| hasStatus | one of the standard classical Arabic metres ⓘ |
| hasStructure | two hemistichs per verse ⓘ |
| hasSyllablePattern | repeating pattern of long and short syllables ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration | al-mutaqārib ⓘ |
| hasTypicalLineLength | four feet per hemistich ⓘ |
| hasUsagePeriod | pre-Islamic period to classical Abbasid period ⓘ |
| hasVerseDivision | two equal hemistichs (ṣadr and ʿajuz) ⓘ |
| influenced | later Persian mutaqārib metre adaptations ⓘ |
| isPartOf | al-Buḥūr al-ʿArabiyya (Arabic metrical circles) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | traditional ʿarūḍ manuals ⓘ |
| usedFor |
elegiac poetry
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epic-style narrative poems ⓘ panegyric poetry ⓘ qaṣīda (classical Arabic ode) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
classical Arabic poetry
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early Islamic Arabic poetry ⓘ pre-Islamic Arabic poetry ⓘ |
| wasSystematizedBy | al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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