Ruba'iyat of Paul Smith

***RUBA'IYAT of PAUL SMITH*** The ruba'i is an ancient form of poetry 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. Each ruba'i is a separate poem in itself. The ruba'i should be eloquent, spontaneous and ingenious. Every major and most minor poet of Persia and Turkey and India composed at some times in the ruba'i form. Paul Smith, an Australian poet, has translated all the ma...