Rubaʿi Rubaʿi Rubāʿī (from "rubāʿiyy", plural "rubāʿiyāt") is the term for a quatrain, a poem or a verse of a poem consisting of four lines. It refers specifically to a form of Persian poetry, or its derivative form in English and other languages In classical Persian poetry, the "ruba'i" is written as a four-line (or two-couplet) poem, with a rhyme-scheme AABA or AAAA. This is an example of a "ruba'i" from Rūmī's Dīwān-i Shams": The usual metre of a Persian "ruba'i", which is used for all four lines of the above quatrain by Rumi, is as follows: In the above scheme,
Burn Center (poem) those feelings to characterize a narrator or protagonist, not herself. She pushes those feelings onto other character. “Burn Center” is unconventional is the fact that it’s 29 lines of poetry. Olds lacks punctuation so the poem is made up of long sentences. The lines are also uneven and have various lengths. The poem is also just one midlength stanza. Olds also displays enjambment by cutting her lines off in the middle of the sentence, making the reader proceed to the next line to get the rest of the idea or the thought. Burn Center (poem) "Burn Center" is a poem