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 |