Musaddas
Encyclopedia
Musaddas is a genre of Urdu
poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-sestain
- (misra). Famous early writers employing this form are Mir Anis and Dabeer. Maulana Altaf Husain Hali
and Waheed Akhtar
are other well known poets to find expression in this form of poetry. Particularly iconic is Hali's Madd-o-Jazr-e-Islam as an exemplary of this form.
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-sestain
Sestain
A sestain is a six line poem or repetitive unit of a poem of this format , comparable to quatrain which is a four liner poem or a unit of poem....
- (misra). Famous early writers employing this form are Mir Anis and Dabeer. Maulana Altaf Husain Hali
Maulana Hali
Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali was an Urdu poet, and Writer. Hali occupies a special position in the history of Urdu literature. He was a poet, a critic, a teacher, a reformer and an impressive prose-writer...
and Waheed Akhtar
Waheed Akhtar
Syed Waheed Akhtar was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, distinguished orator, and one of the leading Muslim scholars and philosophers of the 20th century.- Life :...
are other well known poets to find expression in this form of poetry. Particularly iconic is Hali's Madd-o-Jazr-e-Islam as an exemplary of this form.