Persian · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Tarji-band

तरजी-बंद

said tar-jee-band

Meaning

A stanzaic verse-form like the tarkib-band, but in which the same refrain-couplet returns at the close of every stanza.

Literally: 'return-tied' — stanzas bound by a repeating refrain-couplet

Related words

A stanzaic verse-form: several stanzas of ghazal-like couplets, each stanza closed by a different linking couplet.

A poem in six-line stanzas, each stanza rhyming AAAABB; a form used for grand narrative and reflective verse, famously by Hali.