From prose to metre
Level 4: Composition and Refinement · about 20 minutes
Start from an idea in prose, choose a bahr, and try word orders until the weights fall into place. Short forms (mire, ik, gar), filler words (to, bhii, hii) and vasl are your tools.
Example: the idea 'there is no cure for my pain' in Khafif. 'mere dard kii koii davaa nahiiñ' does not scan; 'mere dukh kii davaa kare koii' (Ghalib) does.
Taqti
mere dukh kii davaa kare koii
fā'ilātun
me
=
re
-
dukh
=
kii
=
mafā'ilun
da
-
vaa
=
ka
-
re
=
fa'lun
ko
=
ii
=
- final long vowel of “re” read short (giraana)
Studio: Prose to metre
These are the words of a misra in Hazaj musamman sālim (mafā'īlun mafā'īlun mafā'īlun mafā'īlun). Tap them in an order that scans. Any order the engine accepts counts, not only the poet's.
your line
Your own sentence
Write a thought in plain Urdu (Roman or Urdu script) and pick a bahr. The engine shows where it breaks and which rearrangements, short forms or synonyms bring it into metre.