Omar stanza
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omar stanza — ˈōˌmär noun Usage: usually capitalized O Etymology: after Omar Khayyám : rubaiyat stanza … Useful english dictionary
rubaiyat stanza — noun Usage: usually capitalized R Etymology: Rubáiyát, collection of quatrains by Omar Khayyám died ab1123 Pers. poet and astronomer : an iambic pentameter quatrain in which the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme called also Omar stanza * * *… … Useful english dictionary
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048 –… … Wikipedia
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 … New Collegiate Dictionary
Rubaiyat stanza — Pros. a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba. * * * … Universalium
Poetry — This article is about the art form. For other uses, see Poetry (disambiguation). Literature Major forms Novel · Poem · Drama Short story · Novella … Wikipedia
Edward FitzGerald (poet) — Edward Marlborough FitzGerald (31 March 1809 ndash; 14 June 1883) was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam .It should be noted that, in this article, FitzGerald … Wikipedia
JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Ruba'i — Rubāʿī (رباعی) is Arabic for quatrain , and is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative English form. The plural form of the word, rubāʿiyāt (رباعیات sometimes anglicised rubaiyat ), is used to describe a collection of such… … Wikipedia
Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… … Universalium
