Collection forms of Urdu poetry

Genres

 

The major genres of poetry found in Urdu are:

• Doha (دوہا)
• Fard (فرد)
• Geet (گیت)
• Ghazal (غزل), as practiced by many poets in the Arab tradition. Mir, Ghalib, Dagh are well-known composers of ghazal.
• Hamd (حمد)
• Hazal (ہزل)
• Hijv (ہجو)
• Kafi (کافی)
• Madah (مدح)
• Manqabat (منقبت)
• Marsia (مرثیہ)
• Masnavi (مثنوی)
• Munajat (مناجات)
• Musaddas (مسدس)
• Mukhammas (مخمس)
• Naat (نعت)
• Nazm (نظم)
• Noha (نوحہ)
• Qasida (قصیدہ)
• Qat'ã (قطعہ)
• Qawwali (قوالی)
• Rubai (رباعی) (a.k.a. Rubayyat or Rubaiyat) (رباعیات)
• Salam (سلام)
• Sehra (سہرا)
• Shehr a'ashob (شہر آشوب)
• Soz (سوز)
• Wasokht (وسوخت)

Foreign forms such as the sonnet, azad nazm or (Free verse) and haiku have also been used by some modern Urdu poets.