Matla'
Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". In Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, the matlaTemplate:' (from Arabic Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Transliteration; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is the first bayt, or couplet, of a ghazal.[1][2] In this sense, it is the opposite of the maqta'. It is possible, although extremely rare, for there to be more than one matlaTemplate:' in a ghazal; in this case the second is referred to as husn e Matla. It is important part because it establishes the overall form and mood of the entire ghazal.
The defining feature of the matlaTemplate:' is that both verses of the couplet rhyme, or expressed in technical terminology, both verses end with the qafiya and radif of the ghazal. In fact, the purpose of the matlaTemplate:' is to define the qafiya and radif for the rest of the ghazal.
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