Rubaiyat stanza

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noun Prosody.

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

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How to use Rubaiyat stanza in a sentence

Finally, just before the tenth stanza, a crestfallen Alvarado whispered that he was done.
Boxers, Be Brave and Quit Before Your Brain Turns to Mush|Gordon Marino|October 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And writers seem to get it a lot, the relationship between words and page and phrase and paragraph, or stanza.
The Writer and the Potter: Edmund De Waal on his New York Debut|Iain Millar|September 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But on January 28, on a typed draft, the final stanza is crossed out and replaced, with no hope for spring remaining.
Sylvia Plath’s Darkest Sea: What an Unveiled Draft Poem Reveals|Olivia Cole|May 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The final stanza was the most fitting tribute I could imagine for my father.
The Girl I Will Miss at Commencement|Robert Bookman|May 22, 2009|DAILY BEAST

E-book use on the iPhone exploded, with over a million downloads of the Stanza application alone.
Don't Write Off Books|Peter Osnos|April 7, 2009|DAILY BEAST
No further hints need be offered except perhaps in regard to the last ten lines of the last stanza.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
In order to shew the riming more clearly, I have 'set back' the 3rd, 6th, and 7th lines of each stanza.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
Evidently this disclaimer is a pretended one; the preceding stanza and ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
This stanza reproduces in the sixth line the last word of the first, and in the seventh the last word of the fourth.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
Like Mirèio, the poem is divided into twelve cantos, and the form of stanza employed is the same.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer