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■
ANSWER: masnavi (“mass-nuh-VEE”) [or mathnawi; or mathnavi; accept Spiritual Couplets or Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi; prompt on couplets or distichs] (Book of Eternity is by Muhammad Iqbal. The Walled Garden of Truth is by Sanā'ī.)
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