- Beher (poetry)
"Beher" in
Urdu poetry is the meter of a "sher " (a form of poetry in Urdu, essentially a couplet). It can be considered as the length of the "sher". Both the lines in the "sher", the couplet, "must" be of same "beher". And all the "shers" in one "ghazal " (a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain) must be of the same "beher". There are 19 kinds of "beher". However, generally "beher" is categorized in three classes: Short, medium, long, depending upon the length of the misra (first line of the sher)For a "ghazal", all the "shers" in the "ghazal" should be of the same of "beher". The example of this is this "ghazal" of
Faiz Ahmed Faiz . Notice the length and meter of theashaars in this "ghazal": it is same throughout.:"shaiKh saahab se rasm-o-raah na kii"
:"shukr hai zindagii tabaah na kii":"tujh ko dekhaa to ser-e-chashm hue"
:"tujh ko chaahaa to aur chaah na kii":"tere dast-e-sitam kaa ajz nahii.n"
:"dil hii kaafir thaa jis ne aah na kii":"the shab-e-hijr kaam aur bahut"
:"ham ne fikr-e-dil-e-tabaah na kii":"kaun qaatil bachaa hai shahar me.n 'Faiz"'
:"jis se yaaro.n ne rasm-o-raah na kii"
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