Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art
Tashtir
तश्तीर
said tash-TEER
also written: Tashteer,Tashtir
Meaning
The device of splitting each line of an existing couplet and inserting a new line between the halves, expanding it into a stanza.
Literally: a halving, splitting in two
Related words
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
Mukhammas
A poem in five-line stanzas; often built by adding three lines to each couplet of an existing ghazal.
ARABIC
Tasdis
The expansion of a couplet into a six-line stanza by adding four lines, producing a musaddas.