کوئی دن گر زندگانی اور ہے
اپنے جی میں ہم نے ٹھانی اور ہے
koii din gar zindagaanii aur hai
apne jii meñ ham ne Thaanii aur hai
If a few more days of life remain,
I have resolved on something different in my heart.
Learn Urdu Poetry
اردو شاعری سیکھیے
A course in Urdu poetry, from reading a sher aloud to writing a ghazal in strict metre. Four levels, every bahr of Urdu poetry (44 forms in 20 families), and a metre engine that never calls a broken line whole.
Sher of the day
The path
Level 1: Foundations of Urdu Poetics
بنیادیںRead verse aloud correctly, know the parts of a ghazal, and tell the forms apart.
Level 2: Ilm-ul-Aruz: Prosody and Scansion
علم العروضWeigh syllables, learn the feet and the main bahrs, and scan famous couplets yourself.
Level 3: Aesthetic Craft and Style
بلاغت و صنعتRecognise the rhetorical devices and hear how the masters differ.
Level 4: Composition and Refinement
تخلیق و اصلاحSupply the rhyme, turn prose into metre, repair broken lines and write a ghazal under the engine's eye.
Your progress
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Tools
Taqti Lab
Paste a misra or a whole ghazal in Urdu or Roman script: the bahr meter shows which bahr it is in and how close it comes to every other, and a broken line is repaired with your own words.
Composition Studio
Fill in qafia, turn prose into metre, mend broken lines, and write a ghazal with every line checked as you type.
Practice
Name the bahr, find the break, spot a faulty rhyme, weigh syllables, and recognise each poet's rang.
38 couplets
Authentic shers of the classical masters, each with translation, word meanings, tashreeh and taqti.
The poets
From Mir and Ghalib to Iqbal: how each one sounds, and what to listen for.
The mentor
Ask a scholar-ustad about meaning, metre and craft. It never overrides the metre engine.