Ruba'i

A rubāʿī (Classical Persian: رباعی, romanized: robāʿī, from Arabic رباعيّ, rubāʿiyy, 'consisting of four, quadripartite, fourfold'; plural: رباعيّات, rubāʿiyyāt) or chahārgāna(e) (Classical Persian: چهارگانه) is a poem or a verse of a poem in Persian poetry (or its derivative in English and other languages) in the form of a quatrain, consisting of four lines (four hemistichs). In classical Persian poetry, the ruba'i is written as a four-line (or two-couplet / two-distich) poem, with a rhyme-scheme A A B A {\displaystyle \mathrm {AABA} } or A A A A {\displaystyle \mathrm {AAAA} } . This is an example of a ruba'i from Rumi's Divan-e Shams: Anwār-i Ṣalāḥ-i Dīn bar angēkhta bād Dar dīda (w)u jān-i ʿāshiqān rēkhta bād Har jān ki laṭīf gasht u az luṭf guzasht Bā khāk-i Ṣalāḥ-i Dīn dar-āmēkhta bād May the splendors of Salahuddin be roused, And poured into the eyes and souls of the lovers. May every soul that has become refined and has surpassed refinement Be mingled with the dust of Salahuddin!