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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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