 The gathering, though, would be in the presence of the King and his Ministers, but then the talk was about somewhat a big gathering than of that.They prophesied that this would lead to development of Urdu "Shairy", as people will be able to get the ideas of practical poetry in accordance with the demand of public interests and of public betterment.The most common form of poetry recital was the "mushaira", or poetic symposium, where poets would gather to read their compositions crafted in accordance to a strict metrical pattern, agreed upon beforehand, even while meeting a certain loftiness of thought.