an Eastern verse form consisting of successive couplets whose lines all end with the same refrain phrase (the qafia), just before which is placed the couplet's rhyming word (radif) The last couplet includes the name of the poet
Poetic form that originated in the Middle East and is composed of a series of independent couplets called shers that have a common meter and rhyme scheme The rhyme scheme is aa, ba, ca, da and the last word is of the second line is usually repeated to make the rhyme
or Bar al-Ghazl River, southwestern Sudan. Formed by the confluence of the Arab and Jur rivers in a swampy area of southern Sudan, it is 445 mi (716 km) long. It flows east to unite at Lake No with the Jabal River and form the White Nile River. It was mapped in 1772 by the French geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
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() Persian غزل, from Arabic غزل (gházal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).