Mukhammas (Arabic مخمس 'fivefold') refers to a type of PersianorUrdu cinquainorpentastich with Sufi connections based on a pentameter. And have five lines in each paragraph.
It is one of the more popular verse forms in Tajik Badakhshan, occurring both in madoh and in other performance-genres.[1]
The mukhammas represents a stanza of two distichs and a hemistichinmonorhyme, the fifth line being the "bob" or burden: each succeeding stanza affects a new rhyme, except in the fifth line, e.g., a rhyme scheme of AAAAB CCCCB DDDDB and so forth.
Every stanza of a mukhammas includes five lines.
A recurrent theme of the mukhammas is praise of Imam Ali and his companions but other themes also occur.
Many Urdu poets have contributed to the mukhammas. The important among them include:
Poets who have written the mukhammas in other languages include:
