Ruba'i

Ruba ʿ ī ( Rubaie, Roba ʿ ī, رباعی, Pl Ruba ʿ īyāt / Rubaiyat / Roba ʿ īyāt / رباعيات ) is a Persian quatrains with the rhyme aaba (or AAAA ). This poem by Abū Sa ʿ was justified īd whose poetic work consists exclusively of poems in this form. The today most well known author of this poem is Omar Khayyam genus ( Omar Khayyam / Omar Khayyam / عمر خيام ). His poems have been known in Europe through the translations or adaptations of the English scholar and poet Edward FitzGerald and the German diplomat Friedrich Rosen. Other classical Persian poets have made ​​use of this form.