Meter of the couplets

Meter

All good verses are written from the point of view of narration. A text could be read with uneven syntaxes but poetry is something that must have regular syntaxes.

Humse aaya na gaya (Galib)

Tumse bulaya na gaya

The list of word used are Tumse, humse, bulaya, aaya, gaya.  This is simplest example of how a simplistic approach could still create an attention. But short meter will need not a couple but a quadruplet to make it deliver the content.

Fasla pyar mein

Dono so mitaya na gaya

Another example

Taqat-e-insaan ko zid

Gurur bahot hai

Sunte hai apnihi

Ashyar bahot hai

Shorter the meter lesser the dramatics & longer the meter the scope for dramatics becomes exponential.

Meer ke dino majhab ko aab puchte kya ho inne to

Kashka khencha dair mein baitha kabka tarq islam kiya

Or

Roz peshani-e-hayat-e-bal durust karun; apni taqdeer sawaroo,

Yeh kainat ashiqee hai teri to muzhe tasavvur ki zaroorat kya hai

Or

Insa gar mukhlisi insa bane rahe to insaniyat ki alag zarrorat kya hai

Sang-e-marmar aur kam aayenge numaish-e-but ki zarrorat kya hai

Self-pity

Haq zidka cheenati hai badguman-e-aatish

Ankhen jalti hai kuch aisi ke tasavvur na bane

Or

Idhar taqdeer sir pe hai zid udhar wo muskura rahe hai

Khaudaya aap bhi kaise kaise ghazab dha rahe hai

Or

Ek asasa khalk reh jata hai unki aadat-e-guftaar-e-haya mein

Wasl ki  raat guzare arram se zid subah gunah samjhe aate hai

Or

Na socha na samajha na sikha na jana
mujhe aa gaya khudbakhud dil lagana (Meer)

Or

Sher ke parde mein main ne gham sunaya hai bahut
marsiye ne dil ko mere bhi rulaya hai bahut (Meer)

Or

Zid kya kya dekh rahi hai teri ankhein koi pur-asar sher nahin milta

Awaaze cheekh rahi hai raston mein, par koi dilkashi-e-saaz nahin milta

Or

Yaksu dil hi dilmein soch raha hai zid kabse

Ke gar mera koi mukam hota to wo kaise hota

Bayan-e-fana

Ek riwayat hai zid jo farden farden tameel hoti hai

Aate farte-shauk wapas namurad ban kar jata hai

Or

Jo bijli hamakti ha unke mehal par

Wo karle tasalli mera ghar jala kar

Or

Khoob roshan hai zid afatab jinhe jeena pasand hai

khub kiye hai intezaar jinhe marna pasand hai

Or

Jano-imaan fana zid jab bhi hoti hai

Admi ko rage gairat ki kaha hoti hai

Or

Duniya ne kis ka rah-e-fana mein diya hai sath
tum bhi chale chalo yun hi jab tak chali chale (Zouk)