URDU PROSODY AND RHETORIC
by
Captain G. D. Pybus
1/11th Sikh
Regiment (K.G.O.)
Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta,
and
Published by Rama Krishna and Sons, Anarkali, Lahore
1924
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*Prefatory material* (pp.
i-viii)
PART
ONE:
PROSODY
*Chapter 1: Introductory* (pp. 3-5)
*Chapter 2: Scansion* (pp. 6-16)
*Chapter 3: Metre* (pp. 17-21)
*Chapter 4: Catalexis* (pp. 22-46)
*Chapter 5: Rhyme* (pp. 47-52)
*Chapter 6: The Circles* (pp. 53-58)
*Chapter 7: The Forms of Poetry* (pp.
59-68)
PART
TWO:
RHETORIC
*Chapter 1: Introductory*
(pp.
71-74)
*Chapter 2: The Figures of Thought* (pp.
75-92)
*Chapter 3: The Figures of Words* (pp.
93-108)
*Chapter 4: The Simile* (pp. 109-113)
*Chapter 5: The Trope* (pp. 114-116)
*Chapter 6: The Metaphor of Substitition*
(pp. 117-118)
*Chapter 7: Metonymy* (pp. 119-121)
*Chapter 8: Defects in Poetry* (pp.
122-123)
*Chapter 9: Some Observations on Plagiarism*
(pp.
124-125)
*Appendix I* -- Specimens
of
the commonest Urdu
metres, for practice in scansion (pp. 126-133)
*Appendix II* -- A
list, in chronological order, of
the famous Urdu poets (pp. 134-135)
*Appendix III* -- Bibliography
(pp.
136-138)
*Index* (pp. 139-151)
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Compare: *Urdu Meter: A Practical
Handbook*
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