Interlocking rubaiyat poetic form
0 likes315 views
Using Robert Frost's "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening," the interlocking rubaiyat poetic form is introduced. The rubaiyat comes from Persia.
Interlocking rubaiyat poetic form
- 3. Persian poem Written around 1000AD/CE 1,000 verses
- 4. WritersDigest.com Poetic Asides column Different form each month
- 5. 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
- 6. 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 鍖ll up with snow.
- 7. 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.
- 8. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sounds the sweep Of easy wind and downy 鍖ake.
- 9. 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.
- 10. ABAA BCBB CDCC DDDD