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/kaˈsiːdə/ · noun
An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure..
He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert.
The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.
Use qasida when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Qasida means An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure..
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He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert.
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