Excerpt from The Rubaiyat Live blithe, for thou knowest not whence thou shalt go. Payne's Translation. It will be observed that the rhyme-word in both examples is some distance from the end of the line; ofttimes it is found near the beginning. Omar adopted twenty-four different quatrains in his Rubaiyat so various and beautiful that we cannot forbear giving other examples of his stan zas; here is one with an interior rhyme