Persian Meters Database
The following list contains all common Persian meters. The list is based on the work of Abdolkhalegh Parhizi, "Aruz e novin e farsi", ("Modern Persian metrics"), which contains a list of Persian meters sorted by frequency based on their usage in a corpus of more than 45,000 poems by 58 poets over more than 10 centuries. All poems that appear more than twice in Parhizi's corpus are listed here (a total of 68 meters). The fragmentations of the meters are based on the theory presented in this work and radically differ from those proposed by Parhizi.

Meter Metron length Frequency
1 HLH - HHLH - HHLH - HHLH 7 7235
2 LHLH - LLHH - LHLH - LLH 6 5818
3 H - HLHL - HLLH - HLHL - H 6 5748
4 LLH - HLLH - HLLH - HLLH 6 4858
5 LH - HHLH - HHLH - HHLH - HH 7 3693
6 LLH - HLHL - HLLH 6 3396
7 H - HLLH - HLLH - HLLH - H 6 2708
8 LH - HHLH - HHLH - H 7 1969
9 HLH - HHLH - HHLH 7 1694
10 H - HLLH - LHLH - H 6 1400
11 HHLH - LHH (2) 6 (augmented) 977
12 H - HLLH - HH (2) 6 704
13 HHLH - HHLH - HHLH - HHLH 7 599
14 HLLH - HLH (2) 6 552
15 LH - HLH - HLH - HLH 5 496
16 LH - HLH - HLH - HLH - H 5 460
17 HLLH - LHLH - HLLH - LHLH 6 439
18 LLH - HLLH - HLLH 6 436
19 HLLH - HLHL - HLLH - H 6 411
20 HLLH - HLLH - HLH 6 381
21 LHLH - LLHH - LHLH - LLHH 6 323
22 LLH - LHLH - HLLH - LHLH - H 6 275
23 H - HLLH - LHLH - HH 6 227
24 HLH - HHLH - HHLH - HHLH - H 7 155
25 LLH - HLLH - HLLH - HLLH - H 6 110
26 H - HLHL - HLLH - HH 6 87
27 HLLH - HLLH - HLLH - HLLH 6 72
28 LLHLH - LLHLH - LLHLH - LLHLH 7 68
29 HHLH - H (2) 7 66
30 H - HLLH - HLHL - HH 6 45
31 H - HLLH - HLLH - HLLH 6 42
32 HLHL - HLLH - HLHL - HLLH 6 34
33 LLHH - LLHH - LLHH - H 6 28
34 LHL-HH-LHL-HH-LHL-HH-LHL-HH 4 28
35 HH - LLH - HH - LLH 4 22
36 LLHH - LHLH - LLHH - LHLH 6 20
37 LH - HLLH - HLLH - HLLH - H 6 18
38 H - HLLH - HLHL - H 6 15
39 LH - HLLH - H (2) 6 13
40 HLL - HH - HLL - HH 4 12
41 H - HLHL - HLLH - HLHL - HH 6 11
42 HLHH - LLH (2) 6 (augmented) 11
43 LHHL - HLH (2) 6 11
44 HLLH - HLHL - HLLH - HLH 6 10
45 H - HLHL - HLLH - HLH 6 9
46 HLH - HHLH - HHLH - H 7 9
47 LHHL - LHHL - HLH 6 8
48 H - HLHL - HLLH - H 6 8
49 HHLH - LLH (2) 6 (augmented) 8
50 HLLH - HLHL - HLLH 6 8
51 HLLH - HLLH - HLLH - H 6 8
52 LHLH - LHLH - LHLH - LHLH 6 7
53 LLH - HLHL - HLLH - H 6 7
54 HLH - HHLH (2) 7 6
55 LH - HHLH - HHLH - HH 7 5
56 H - HLLH - HLLH - HH 6 5
57 H - HLLH - HLLH - HLLH - HH 6 5
58 HHLH - HHLH - HHLH - H 7 5
59 HHLH - HHLH - LHH 6 (augmented) 5
60 H - HLHL - H (2) 6 5
61 HLHH - LHH (2) 6 (augmented) 4
62 LLH - LLH - LLH - LLH - LLH - LLH - LLH - LLH 4 4
63 LLH - LHH (2) 6 4
64 H - HLLH - LH (2) 6 3
65 LHLH - LHLH - LHLH 6 3
66 LHL - HH - LHL - HH 4 3
67 HLLH - HLLH - HLLH 6 3
68 HLHLH - HLHLH - HLHLH - HLHLH 4 3