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" Purpose-poem; practically identical with the better-known (Persian) form of the Ghazel or love-song par excellence, with the exception that the latter is limited to eighteen beits or verses and must contain the name of the poet in the last beit. The Kesideh... "
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night - Page 131
1884
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Arabian Poetry for English Readers

William Alexander Clouston - 1881 - 566 pages
...name of the poet in the last beil. The Kesideh may be either tetrametric, hexametric, or octametric, and is built upon a single rhyme, the two hemistichs...other and with the second hemistich of each succeeding Ml to the end of the poem, however long it may be. It is a curious fact, that the same prohibition...
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Arabian Poetry for English Readers

William Alexander Clouston - 1881 - 564 pages
...name of the poet in the last belt. The Kesideh may be either tetrametric, hexametric, or octametric, and is built upon a single rhyme, the two hemistichs of the first btit rhyming with each other and with the second hemistich of each succeeding belt to the end of the...
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume 9

1884 - 408 pages
...suggested to him by the strokes of a blacksmith's hammer upon an anvil : not the most promising combina386 tion of circumstance for the birth of so important...It is a curious fact that the same prohibition of enjamdement, or the carrying on of the sense from one verse (or pair of hemistichs) to another, obtains...
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume 9

1884 - 408 pages
...that which most frequently occurs in the Thousand and One Nights) is the Kesideh or Purpost-foem ; practically identical with the better-known (Persian)...It is a curious fact that the same prohibition of en/aml/emenf, or the carrying on of the sense from one verse (or pair of hemistichs) to another, obtains...
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