Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Rubāʿī (Persian: رباعی rubāʿī quatrain) is a poetry style. It is used to describe a Persian quatrain (a stanza or poem of four lines) or its derivative form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word rubāʿiyāt (رباعیات) often anglicised rubaiyat is used to describe a collection of such quatrains. There are a number of possible rhyme schemes to the rubaiyat form e.g. AABA AAAA.