Using Robert Frost's "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening," the interlocking rubaiyat poetic form is introduced. The rubaiyat comes from Persia.

1. Interlocking Rubaiyat
POETIC FORM
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3. • Persian poem
• Written around 1000AD/CE
• 1,000 verses

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• Poetic Asides column
• Different form each month

5. Rules of Rubaiyat
• Two or more quatrains
• AABA rhyming pattern
• Successive verses uses unrhymed line from previous verse
• Last quatrain can be AAAA or AABA

6. Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

7. My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

8. He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

9. The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

10. • ABAA
• BCBB
• CDCC
• DDDD

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