Beher (poetry)

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 the ashaars 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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