What are the components of the form?

• Autonomous couplets-do not have to relate to each other/independent of one another
• Rhyme, Refrain/here again & Recognizable, Prosody/sound, measure of speech
• Malta: opening couplet
• Qafia: rhyme
• Makhta: final couplet, authors signature

How does the form interact with the formal imagination in the poem?

• The repetition in the poem can shape the reader’s understanding and satisfies their understanding to imagine what is occurring in the couplet.
• Also while reading on the form it says when people perform these poems to crowds they are often repeated from speaker to audience which can create a sort of suspense and offers somewhat of a mirroring effect from the crowd and speaker.
• Autonomy is the idea of freedom each couplet has the power to stand alone on its own and it holds together to the next couplet by disunity.