Tossup
A popularizer of this form guides an author named “stream full of life” on a Dantean journey through the heavens in a poem in this form, Book of Eternity. The poem The Walled Garden of Truth exemplifies this form’s typical 11-syllable meter and didactic nature. Scholars group “analogy” and “hiatus” among the seven “voices” used by a poem in this form. This form was used for the works in Jami’s Haft Awrang and Amir Khusrow’s Khamsa, which is modeled on Nizami’s Five Treasures. A poem in this form advises to “Neglect the foam, and regard the sea” in a parable about an elephant in a dark room, and consists of six books written in the Turkish city of Konya. A poem in this form instructs readers to hear an instrument lament a “tale of separations” in the “Song of the Reed.” For 10 points, what Persian form titles the best-known work of Rūmī? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 88% | 0% | 58% | 134.19 |