Prosody is the science that describes poetry forms called meters or seas (bohor) in Arabic. Is there a better resource for learning about the scansion structure of Arabic poetry? What are the basics of how scansion works in Arabic poetry? I've looked for a better description of this, but searching for "seas arabic poetry" just gave me a list of results which were essentially identical to the above-quoted Wikipedia page. Since seas are made up of taf'ilahs, does that mean it's a taf'ilah which is basically a foot?.Is "seas" really just another word for meter, or is there some significant difference between the "seas" of Arabic poetry and the meter of western poetry?.What does it mean to have fifteen different meters? Meter in poetry is the overall rhythmic structure are the fifteen different things actually feet?.This confused me for a number of reasons. Also, in rhymed poetry, every bayt has to end with the same rhyme ( qāfiyah) throughout the poem. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the bayt from one meter to another. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous.
The measuring unit of seas is known as " taf‘īlah", and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse ( bayt) of the poem. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as "seas" ( buḥūr). Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The rhymed poetry falls within fifteen different meters collected and explained by al-Farahidi in The Science of ‘Arud. I was reading about Arabic poetry on Wikipedia, and specifically the description of scansion:
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