Irsoli masal and rhyme

“Qofiya” is an Arabic word meaning to follow, to go after. In literature it is the consistent repetition of matching-sounding words in set places of the lines. The main repeated sound of a rhyme is called “raviy”: for example in the pair “gul – bulbul” the raviy is “l”, in “vafo – jafo” it is “o”. The rhyme order depends on the genre. In the masnaviy only the two lines inside one couplet rhyme, so each couplet has its own rhyme. In the ghazal the two lines of the first couplet rhyme, and in later couplets only the second line repeats that rhyme. The qit‘a has no such paired first couplet. In the ruboiy and tuyuq the rhyme comes either in all four lines or in the first, second and fourth. The field that studies the rules of rhyme was called “ilmi qofiya”, and scholars regarded it as the alphabet of poet and reader.