qasida

Definition

An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.

Etymology

From Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda).

Example Sentences

• "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."