Diwan-e-Ghalib · 270 of 272

مستعدِ قتلِ یک عالم ہے جلاّدِ فلک

Mirza Ghalib
Bahrرمل مثمن محذوف
فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن
arooz scans 1 of 2 lines

مستعدِ قتلِ یک عالم ہے جلاّدِ فلکarooz could not scan this line

کہکشاں موجِ شفق میں تیغِ خوں آشام ہے

A small circle marks a line arooz could not fit to the poem’s bahr. That is a limit of arooz, not of the poet: the text may leave an izafat unwritten, a word may be missing from arooz’s dictionary, or the line may use a licence arooz does not yet model.