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 Encyclopedia: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The fact that the rubaiyat are a collection of quatrains - and may be selected and rearraged subjectively to demonstrate one interpretation or another - has led to widely differing versions.
Fitzgerald gave the Rubaiyat a distinct fatalistic spin, although it has been claimed that he softened the impact of Khayyam's nihilism and his preoccupation with the mortality and transience of all things.
The term "Rubaiyat" by itself has come to be used to describe the quatrain rhyme scheme that Fitzgerald used in his translations: AABA.
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"Rubaiyat" means " (A stanza of four lines) quatrains": verses of four lines.It was also used by Turkish poets.
Fitzgerald gave the Rubaiyat a distinct (Click link for more info and facts about fatalistic) fatalistic spin, although it has been claimed that he softened the impact of Khayyam's nihilism and his preoccupation with the mortality and transience of all things.
The term " (Click link for more info and facts about Rubaiyat) Rubaiyat" by itself has come to be used to describe the quatrain rhyme scheme that Fitzgerald used in his translations: AABA.
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 Rubaiyat
In fact, rubaiyat derives directly from "quatrain" in the Persian language.
VII Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
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 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The word rubaiyat, the plural of rubai, means quatrains (four-line poems), of which the work is composed.
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 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam by Edward Fitzgerald
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