Rubai
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement,
Simple | | |
| Description: | | Also known as Rubaiyat stanza or Omar Khayyam Quatrain, the
rubai consists of four decasyllabic lines rhymed aaba (infrequently aaaa). It is one stanza long. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi
al-Khayyami | | |
| Origin: | | Persian | | |
| Schematic: | | Rhyme: aaba
Line meter: xxxxxxxxxx | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 4 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 4 | | |
| See Also: | | Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Interlocking Rubaiyat, Rubaiyat, Syllabic
Verse | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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