Mukhammas (Arabic مخمس 'fivefold') refers to a type of Persian or Urdu cinquain or pentastich with Sufi connections based on a pentameter.
It is one of the more popular verse forms in Tajik Badakhshan, occurring both in madoh and in other performance-genres.
[1] The mukhammas represents a stanza of two distichs and a hemistich in monorhyme, the fifth line being the "bob" or burden: each succeeding stanza affects a new rhyme, except in the fifth line, e.g., a rhyme scheme of AAAAB CCCCB DDDDB and so forth.
Every stanza of a mukhammas includes five lines.
Many Urdu poets have contributed to the mukhammas.