LessonsVerbal Embellishments: Resembling Endings, Jinas, Sajʿ, and Further DevicesQuiz

Tashriʿ constructs poetic lines that can end at more than one permissible point, often yielding two rhyme patterns. A longer version and a shortened version remain metrical and meaningful; it is also called tawshih dhā al-qāfiyatayn.

The poet arranges added material so that both the full and shortened forms work. Removing an ending arbitrarily, if it breaks sense or metre, does not constitute this device.

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Tashriʿ: verse with alternative rhymes

Verbal Embellishments: Resembling Endings, Jinas, Sajʿ, and Further Devices

Tashriʿ constructs poetic lines that can end at more than one permissible point, often yielding two rhyme patterns. A longer version and a shortened version remain metrical and meaningful; it is also called tawshih dhā al-qāfiyatayn.

The poet arranges added material so that both the full and shortened forms work. Removing an ending arbitrarily, if it breaks sense or metre, does not constitute this device.