Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art
Mukhammas
मुख़म्मस
said mu-KHAM-mas
also written: Mukhammus,Mukhammas
Meaning
A poem in five-line stanzas; often built by adding three lines to each couplet of an existing ghazal.
Literally: five-fold, made of five
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The device of incorporating another poet's line or couplet into one's own poem, building new verse around the borrowed lines.