Meaning
A stanzaic verse-form: several stanzas of ghazal-like couplets, each stanza closed by a different linking couplet.
Literally: 'composition-tied' — stanzas bound by connecting verses
Related words
PERSIAN
Tarji-band
A stanzaic verse-form like the tarkib-band, but in which the same refrain-couplet returns at the close of every stanza.
ARABIC
Musaddas
A poem in six-line stanzas, each stanza rhyming AAAABB; a form used for grand narrative and reflective verse, famously by Hali.
ARABIC
Nazm
A poem developed around a single connected theme, as opposed to the ghazal's discrete couplets.