THE TURKISH ROBA'IYAT A Sufi Anthology Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The roba'i is a poem of four lines in which usually the first, second and fourth lines rhyme and sometimes with the radif (refrain) after the rhyme words... sometimes all four rhyme. It is composed in metres called roba'i metres. Each roba'i is a separate poem in itself and should not be regarded as a part of a long poem as was created by FitzGerald when he translated those...
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