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Qit'a

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The qit'a (from Arabic: قطعة, romanizedqiṭʿa, lit.'fragment' or 'piece') is a form of monorhyme poetry that usually appears in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other associated literature.[1]

References

Sources

  • Losensky, P. (2017). Greene, Roland (ed.). "Qiṭʿa". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780190681173.001.0001. ISBN 9780691154916.