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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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
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
epic-style narrative poems
panegyric poetry
qaṣīda (classical Arabic ode) NERFINISHED
usedIn classical Arabic poetry
early Islamic Arabic poetry
pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
wasSystematizedBy al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī NERFINISHED

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motaqareb metre influencedBy Arabic mutaqārib metre