http://kevin.saff.net/2007/04/21/rubaiyat/ some adventure Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://kevin.saff.net/2007/04/21/rubaiyat/#comment-1164 Mark Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://kevin.saff.net/2007/04/21/rubaiyat/#comment-1164 Mmm...I would just say "melencholy." Sounds like "Neutral Tones" by Hardy. That and "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (a villanelle) probably have you beat in the despair category. Mmm…I would just say "melencholy." Sounds like "Neutral Tones" by Hardy. That and "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (a villanelle) probably have you beat in the despair category.

]]> http://kevin.saff.net/2007/04/21/rubaiyat/#comment-1162 Kevin Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://kevin.saff.net/2007/04/21/rubaiyat/#comment-1162 "Patterns of Poetry" describes a Rubaiyat as an iambic pentameter quatrain rhymed aaba, "contemplative to the point of melancholy". I think I overshot melancholy, hitting despair instead. "Patterns of Poetry" describes a Rubaiyat as an iambic pentameter quatrain rhymed aaba, "contemplative to the point of melancholy". I think I overshot melancholy, hitting despair instead.

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