Persian metres are the patterns of long and short syllables, 10 to 16 syllables long, used in Persian poetry. Over the past 1000 years the Persian language...

prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study and the actual use of metres and forms of versification...

a maximum depth of 90 metres (295 feet) and an average depth of 50 metres (164 feet). Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are (clockwise, from...

This article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Persian (/ˈpɜːrʒən, -ʃən/ PUR-zhən...

different metres are used in Persian poetry, but many of them are rare. The common ones are about 30 in number. Almost all Persian metres are made up...

languages with quantitative poetic metres, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit, and classical Persian, an anceps (plural ancipitia or (syllabae)...

Arabic and Persian. Thus in Wright's list of Arabic metres, there are dimeters, trimeters, and tetrameters only, and similarly in Persian, no metre is longer...

or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The...

(1976). The Persian Metres. Cambridge University Press. Farzaad, Masuud (1942). The Metre of the Robaaii. Tehran Farzaad, M. (1967). Persian poetic meters:...

Poetry portal Diwan (poetry) List of Persian poets and authors Persian metres Persian mysticism Rumi, Persian poet Persian literature The Love Songs of Hafiz...

Persian columns or Persepolitan columns are the distinctive form of column developed in the Achaemenid architecture of ancient Persia, probably beginning...

A Persian carpet (Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje...

Iran Land, covering 37,000 square metres (400,000 sq ft), and an indoor amusement park covering 28,000 square metres (300,000 sq ft) with video games,...

Persian art or Iranian art (Persian: هنر ایرانی, romanized: Honar-è Irâni) has one of the richest art heritages in world history and has been strong in...

variety of different metres. Three different metres are used in Story 10. The first couplet is in the 13-syllable ruba'i metre (3.3.13 and 5.1.13 in...

A Persian miniature (Persian: نگارگری ایرانی negârgari Irâni) is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art...

Hindu Kush at 7,492 metres (24,580 ft), and its lowest point is the Lut Desert to the east of Kerman, Iran, at below 300 metres (980 ft). In geology...

in ionic metres ending in u u – –, there do not seem to be any examples. A similar phenomenon is found in other languages whose poetic metres are quantitative...

Delhi, for further education. He published the first Gujarati book on Persian metres as Shairi in two volumes in 1936. His other notable works include Shamshire...

Vis and Rāmin (Persian: ويس و رامين, Vis o Rāmin) is a classical Persian love story. The epic was composed in poetry by Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (or "Gorgani")...

influence from classical Persian traditions; a large number of Persian loanwords entered the literary language, and Persian metres and forms (such as those...

attraction with a height of 25 metres (82 ft 0 in) and with a perimeter of 11.5 metres (37 ft 9 in) at its trunk and 18 metres (59 ft 1 in) higher up around...

Rumi's ghazal 163, which begins Beravīd, ey harīfān "Go, my friends", is a Persian ghazal (love poem) of seven verses by the 13th-century poet Jalal-ed-Din...

surpassed refinement Be mingled with the dust of Salahuddin! The usual metre of a Persian ruba'i, which is used for all four lines of the above quatrain by...

this metre. The metre re-emerges in Persian poetry of the 10th century and later. The author of The Persian Metres, L. P. Elwell-Sutton, conjectured that...

coastal formations rarely exceed an elevation of 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) metres above sea level, with some portions lying below the...

Long metre (aka long measure): a poetic metre consisting of quatrains (4-line stanzas) in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme ABAB. Persian metres Quantitative...

The war is also known under other names, such as the Second Gulf War, Persian Gulf War, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War before the term "Iraq...

gūsheh-ha and of musical genres in free metre, stretchable metre or fixed metre may be influenced by Persian poetic metres. Music-related manuscripts from the...

metres (17,585 ft), traverses the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. The deepest known point is in the Arabian Sea limits at a depth of 5,395 metres (17...