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Coconut-ty Dream (Rubaiyat) Rubaiyat means, prosody (in Persian poetry)a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas. Rubaiyat: stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains that are interlocked by rhyme. A series of the rubai quatrains is called a Rubaiyat. The lines are of approximate equal length rhymed. Interlocking rhyme scheme aaba, bbcb, ccdc, etc A rubai is, though intended to stand alone, usually a suite of rubai (rubaiyat) composed and arranged in a standard rhyming order. In a single rubai, the rhyme scheme of aaba is used with enjambment (the continuing of a sentence or thought)between the 3rd and 4th lines. The usual meter used is iambic pentameter. Coconut-ty Dream Tired, he slept under the coconut tree Dreaming, just started climbing up the tree Of his routine fear the tree so shivered And swayed wild unknowing itself to free And he took out the sickle and severed One by one the bunches dropped down slivered And lo, high up the tree rested his soul Lessoned not to die of a dream quivered