Click on the parts to read the previous articles in this series:  Part I, Part II Now that we know how to weigh the words according to their sounds, it’s time to move on and see how we can fit these words in a meter. Lets start off with the answers to the breakdowns of [...]

Click to read the previous article in this series:  Part I Part II of the series: We will talk about what do we mean when we discuss the weight of a word in Urdu poetry. Before we begin, let me clarify something, I have no pure technical knowledge of how the meter works in Urdu [...]

While there are several good articles out on the internet about the technicalities of ghazals and how to ensure that you are writing in meter, I thought I might as well add something myself as despite sending a lot of friends to those links, I find that people understand better when I explain it to [...]