Омар Хайам Рубаи Четверостишия 2

Omar Khayyam is known for his quatrains - wise, full of humor, guile and insolence of rubai. For a long time was forgotten, but his work became known to Europeans in modern times thanks to the translations of Edward Fitzgerald.

Giyasaddin Abu-l-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Hayyam Nishapuri is a Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer. Contemporaries appealed to him - "The greatest of the wise!", Just "Wisest of the great!"
Omar Khayyam is famous all over the world for his quatrains of "rubai". In algebra he constructed a classification of cubic equations and gave their solutions with the help of conic sections. In Iran, Omar Khayyam is also known for the creation of a more accurate comparison with the European calendar, which was officially used since the XI century. Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat Quatrain

Rubai (plural "rubayat"), (other names: dubayti, ram) - quatrain; a form of lyrical poetry, widespread in the Near and Middle East (on a par with the gazelle and Qasida). The forefather was the oral folk creativity of the Iranians. In writing, rubai exists from the 9th-10th centuries. In content - lyrics with philosophical reflections. The poems consist of four lines (two baits) rhyming as aaba, less often - aaaa, that is, rhyme first, second and fourth (sometimes all four) lines. Rubai are built in meter of aruz.
The most famous authors of the rubai are Omar Khayyam, Mehseti Ganjavi, Heiran-Khanum, Abu Abdallah Rudaki and Zahiriddin Babur.