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روضهٔ ششم بهارستان: در ذکر شعر و شاعران / Baharestan – Sixth Garden (Rowzeh 6): On Poets and Poetry

The Sixth Garden of the Baharestan

Jami's Baharestan (Spring Garden) is organized into eight gardens (rowzeh), each devoted to a theme. The sixth garden gathers prose anecdotes and their capping verses about poets and the craft of poetry.

Its sections celebrate skilled, discerning poets who are justly rewarded, while satirizing pretentious or incompetent versifiers — those who plagiarize others' couplets, mispronounce the vowels of a rhyme, confuse consonants, or cannot tell true poetry (she'r) from barley (sha'ir). The anecdote about the poet who could not keep his rhyme consistent belongs to this garden, alongside the other poet-and-patron and mock-the-bad-poet sections drawn from it.

Understanding this thematic garden as a container clarifies why these individual sections share a common satirical and evaluative purpose.

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