A ghazal poem is typically consisted of four to ten couplets, each having the same number of syllables (seven to thirteen) in each line. The couplets can stand alone as a poem. The first couplet introduces a scheme, followed by a refrain. The next couplets pick up the scheme and rhyme and the final couplet includes the author's name. This type of poem evokes feelings of love, melancholy, and longing.
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Missing is the other half of my sail
Without your support, I cannot set sail
Please--I'm begging you--look behind the veil
See that all seams are ripping on this sail
Now an unexpected maelstorm of hail
A multitude of torrents against sail
In desperate need of a savior; bail
Me out of watery graves...the lost sail
Eternity meets tortured soul at jail
Waving white flag, casting away the sail
Oh, Intrepid Imaginer, do wail
For there is neither a breeze nor a sail
