A qasida (also spelled qasidah) in Arabic "قصيدة", in Persian قصیده, is a form of poetry from pre-Islamic Arabia. It typically runs more than 50 lines, and sometimes more than 100. It was later inherited by the Persians, where it became a rhymeless poem of more than 100 lines and was used and developed immensely. Persian (فارسی), also known as Farsi (local name), Parsi (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (an Afghan dialect), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Islam (Arabic al-islām الإسلام,  listen) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. ... The term the Middle East sometimes applies to the peninsula alone, but usually refers to the Arabian Peninsula plus the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. ... Persian art is conscious of a great past, and monumental in many respects. ...

[1]  (http://www.bestirantravel.com/culture/poetry/poetry.html). Properly, either all the lines rhyme [2]  (http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/couplet.html), or every second line of the four-line verse rhymes [3]  (http://www.urdupoetry.com/poetryforms.html). This article is about the poetic technique. ...

The pre-Islamic qasida maintained a single elaborate meter throughout the poem, and every line rhymed. These poems are considered some of the most elaborate in the world. In literature, meter or metre (sometimes known as prosody) is a term used in the scansion (analysis into metrical patterns) of poetry, usually indicated by the kind of feet and the number of them. ...