JAMI Joseph & Zulaikha and Other Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The masnavi is the form used in Persian poetry to write epic ballads or romances and is essentially a Persian invention. Each couplet has a different rhyme with both lines rhyming. This is to allow the poet greater freedom to go into a longer description of the subject he has chosen to present. All of the great, long, narrative poems of Persia were composed in this...