An ovee is a type of meterical stanza in Marathi poetry

Marathi poetry

-Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...

. An ovee is generally made of four lines. Each line can contain 8–15 syllables, while the fourth line of each ovee is a short one, generally half or 1/3 of the length of first three lines.

The rhyme scheme of an ovee is a-a-a while fourth line does not rhyme with first three. Ovees have been extensively used in medieval period poetry by Marathi saint poets like Tukaram

Tukaram

Sant Tukaram was a prominent Varkari Sant and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement in India.Sant Tukaram was born and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune in Mahārāshtra, India. He was born to a couple with the family name "More", the descendent of the Mourya Clan with first...

, Eknath

Eknath

Eknath was a prominent Marathi scholar and religious poet. He is called a "sant" in the Marathi tradition as are most other religious poets...

 and Ramdas

Ramdas

Ramdas or Ram Das may refer to:*S. A. Ramadass, a MLA from Karnataka, India*Samarth Ramdas or Samartha Ramdas Swami, a 17th-century Hindu saint from Maharashtra, who was a devotee of Lord Rama and the spiritual guru of Maratha king Shivaji*Ramadasu, a 17th-century Hindu devotee from Andhra...

. Extensive works like the Dnyaneshwari

Dnyaneshwari

The Dnyaneshwari is the commentary on Bhagavad Gita written by Marathi saint and poet Dnyaneshwar during the 13th century at age 16...

etc. have been composed in this metre.

Example of an ovee:

aa-ii ma-za gu-ru,
aa-ii ka-lpa ta-ru,
ya-sha-cha sa-ga-ru,
aa-ii maa-zii.

(my mother is my teacher, my mother is a wish fulfilling tree, an ocean of accomplishments, is my mother)