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Rubaiyat

Type:  

Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic

 
Description: 

A poem composed of multiple Rubai, ten-syllable lined quatrains rhymed aaba.

 
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

 
See Also:  

Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Interlocking Rubaiyat, Rubai, Syllabic Verse

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 
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