Do-baytī (which, however, is very close to standard Persian). An example of one of his poems is the following: Do-baytī Do-bayti () (literally "two-couplet"), also known as "fahlaviyat", is an ancient form of Persian poetry. It is used to describe a Persian quatrain (a stanza or poem of four lines), similar to Ruba'i but different in meter. A "do-bayti" has four half-lines of 11 syllables each, and usually uses the "hazaj" meter: The first two syllables may sometimes be replaced by – u or – –. The rhyme scheme is "a a a a" or "a a b a". A well-known
Onegin stanza adapts the stanza to a spare lyrical mood, which is good evidence of the form's versatility); and in the verse novel "Unholyland" by Aidan Andrew Dun. The British writer Andy Croft has written two novels in Onegin stanzas, "Ghost Writer" and "1948". Some stanzaic forms, written in iambic tetrameter in the poetry of Vladimír Holan, especially in the poems První testament and Cesta mraku, were surely inspired by Onegin stanza. Onegin stanza Onegin stanza (sometimes "Pushkin sonnet") refers to the verse form popularized (or invented) by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin through his novel in verse "Eugene Onegin". The work