- Rubaiyat stanza
- noun Etymology: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, quatrains translated by Edward FitzGerald (1859) Date: 1940 an iambic pentameter quatrain with a rhyme scheme aaba
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Rubaiyat stanza
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