Tappa
Aug 6 2008, Abdulhadi Hairan

Tappa, or Landey, is a Pashto poem which is a composition of two unequal meters, in which the first line consists of nine syllables and the second consists of thirteen syllables. It is the oldest and most popular genre of Pashto poetry.

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