Rubaiyat stanza

noun

Prosody.

a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.

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Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza.

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