Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Divan poetry was a highly ritualized and symbolic art form. From the Persian poetry that largely inspired it, it inherited a wealth of symbols whose meanings and interrelationships--both of similitude (mr`t nZyr mura'at-i nazir / tnsb tenasub) and opposition (tDd tezad) were more or less prescribed. Divan poetry was composed through the constant juxtaposition of many such images within a strict metrical framework, thus allowing numerous potential meanings to emerge. The vast majority of Divan poetry was lyric in nature: either gazels (which make up the greatest part of the repertoire of the tradition), or kasides. There were, however, other common genres, most particularly the mesnevi, a kind of verse romance and thus a variety of narrative poetry; the two most notable examples of this form are the Leyli and Majnun of Fuzuli and the Husn u Ask of Seyh Galib.
What kind of poetry inspired Ottoman Divan Poetry?
Persian poetry
From the Persian poetry that largely inspired it, it inherited a wealth of symbols whose meanings and interrelationships--both of similitude (mr`t nZyr mura'at-i nazir / tnsb tenasub) and opposition (tDd tezad) were more or less prescribed.
Ottoman Divan Poetry