عروض — Arooz | Instant Urdu poetry meter checker
Paste any Urdu couplet and instantly discover its bahr — the rhythmic pattern that makes a verse moving, memorable, and in-meter.
Every verse has a weight
Arooz is the classical science of meter in Urdu, Persian, and Arabic poetry. It studies how a line’s syllables fall into a rhythmic pattern — a bahr — that gives the verse its music.
A ghazal or nazm is said to be mauzun (in meter) only when every line shares one bahr. Even a single off-meter line breaks the music.
- Bahr (meter)
- The meter — a fixed pattern of syllable weights repeated across a verse. There are 129 classical bahrs.
- Arkan (feet)
- The building blocks of a bahr — feet like Mafaeelun or Faailaatun that repeat to form the line.
- Taqti (scansion)
- Scanning a line — breaking it into syllables and marking each one as long (=) or short (-).
- Mauzun (in meter)
- When every syllable falls into the bahr’s pattern.
Parts of a verse
Take Ghalib’s famous opening line. Watch how it breaks into syllables, weights, and feet — and how those feet add up to a bahr.
Famous meters
Six of the classical meters you’ll meet most often — each with its feet, syllable weights, and a famous example.
Three simple steps
Paste your couplet
Type or paste any Urdu poetry — one line per couplet line. Diacritics help but aren’t required.
Say what you’re scanning
Ghazal and nazm match every line against one bahr — Auto finds the dominant one, or pick it yourself. Azad nazm checks each line’s flow of a rukn.
See the breakdown
Get the matched bahr, its feet, each word’s syllable taqti, and which words (if any) break the meter.