Sepid Persian Poetry

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Sepid poetry (sepid, "white") or "White Poetry" is a free verse movement of Modern Persian poetry that departs from Classical Persian prosody and adopts "new content, viewpoint, and diction".^[1] Ahmad Shamloo is considered the founder of the White Poetry movement,^[2] which came to its mature form and general acceptance after Bijan Jalali.

Free verse is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern.

In poetry, metre (British) or meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study and the actual use of metres and forms of versification are both known as prosody.

Bijan Jalali was a modern Persian poet.

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Notes

↑ Gabrielle van den Berg, "Perceptions of Poetry. Some Examples of Late 20th Century Tajik Poetry," Oriente Moderno 22 (83).1 (2003), p. 42.
↑ Anthony Appiah and Diana Ayton-Shenker, "On the Death of a Prominent Contemporary Poet", The Poetry of Central California "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2010-08-09.

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[1] Gabrielle van den Berg, "Perceptions of Poetry. Some Examples of Late 20th Century Tajik Poetry," Oriente Moderno 22 (83).1 (2003), p. 42.

[2] Anthony Appiah and Diana Ayton-Shenker, "On the Death of a Prominent Contemporary Poet", The Poetry of Central California "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2010-08-09.