Rubāʿī" (رباعي) is a poetry style, the Arabic term for "quatrain". It is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative
form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word, rubāʿiyāt (رباعیات ), often anglicised rubaiyat, is used to describe a
collection of such quatrains.[1]
There are a number of possible rhyme schemes to the rubaiyat form, e.g. AABA, AAAA.[2] In Persian verse, a ruba'i visually contains only four lines, its rhyme
falling at the middle and end of the lines.
The verse form AABA as used in English verse is known as
the Rubaiyat Quatrain due to its use by Edward FitzGerald in his famous 1859 translation, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Algernon Charles
Swinburne, one of the first admirers of
FitzGerald's translation of Khayyam'smedieval Persian verses, was the first to imitate the stanza form, which
subsequently became popular and was used widely, as in the case of Robert Frost's 1922 poem "Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
A single quatrain is
a Rubai, several together are a Rubaiyat, linked by the stanza's un-rhyming
line they become an Interlocking Rubaiyat
Interlocking Rubaiyat
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Type:
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Structure,
Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
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Description:
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A
rubaiyat with interlocking rhyme. Quatrains composed of decasyllabic lines
with rhyme scheme aaba bbcb ccdc ... zzaz.
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Attributed to:
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Ghiyath
al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami
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Origin:
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Persian
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Schematic:
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A three
stanza interlocking rubaiyat would be:
xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxc xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxc xxxxxxxxxc xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxc |
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Pasted
from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/001/150.shtml>
My
thanks to Ron Newman at Volecentral for this information, his site is a
wonderful resource.
Example Poem
Free Agent (Rubaiyat)
Testosterone Tom was
a monstrous man
raised in the arctic
where caribou ran.
When he ate there
weren't left-overs; Tom had
never heard of
baseball, bagels, or flan.
Like a fish to an
aquarium sent,
or a monkey to a
zoo, our Tom spent
his first weeks in
Maine looking for control.
Slowly festering
smarts would now augment.
Tom learned of the
NFL, why quibble.
For this quest he
had no need to dribble.
For his size there
was no counter-balance,
We'll not divulge
teams taking a nibble.
© Lawrencealot - December 29, 2012
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