Rubai is a four line poem, often about love, drunkeness, life, etc. There are two rhyme schemes under this form, aaaa and aaba. There are twelve syllables with a beat.


Under mist laden moonlight reflecting warm sands,
my love dances in thin flowing veils her long hands
sweep my wine clouded senses, dipping my numb lips
to her strawberry mouth, a bottle of her is grand.


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