Musaddas (Urdu: مسدس) is a genre of Urdu poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-sestain- (misra).
Famous early writers employing this form are Mir Anis and Dabeer.
Maulana Altaf Husain Hali and Waheed Akhtar are other well-known poets to find expression in this form of poetry.
Particularly iconic is Hali's Madd-o-Jazr-e-Islam as an exemplary of this form.
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