Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art
Tasdis
तसदीस
said tas-DEES
also written: Tasdees,Tasdis
Meaning
The expansion of a couplet into a six-line stanza by adding four lines, producing a musaddas.
Literally: making six-fold
Related words
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
Tazmin
The device of incorporating another poet's line or couplet into one's own poem, building new verse around the borrowed lines.
ARABIC
Tashtir
The device of splitting each line of an existing couplet and inserting a new line between the halves, expanding it into a stanza.