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• Persian poem
• Written around 1000AD/CE
• 1,000 verses
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Rules of Rubaiyat
• Two or more quatrains
• AABA rhyming pattern
• Successive verses uses unrhymed line from previous verse
• Last quatrain can be AAAA or AABA
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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
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He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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• ABAA
• BCBB
• CDCC
• DDDD