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Not to change the subject but... is that form a Kayyamic quatrain or rather a Fitzgerald-translationic quatrain? I know most of Homer in English is iambic pentameter but the original Greek, IIRC, was dactylic hexameter. What did Omar write in?
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Perfect form and message.
With the read I became the voyeur.
Thank you, Commando.
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It is Fitgeraldian - almost. Strictly speaking, the rhymes whould be A, A, B, A.
It could more properly have read:-
Her bright blue eyes and tresses gold,
He looks upon, with gaze so bold;
Soft undulations ’neath her dress:
He waits to see her drapes unfold
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Yeah but I wonder; is there a ear here that can't hear with the eye the clear superiority of the first? Fixed structures restrict Art. 
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True Art is to transcend the restrictions of the fixed structures. (discuss!
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True Art is to transcend the restrictions of the fixed structures. (discuss! Uh, didn't I just say that? 
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said,
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said, wus -
"Fixed structures restrict Art."
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Fixed structures restrict Art. All generalizations are wrong! 
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Yeahbut your generalizations, Trombonator; are the most wrongest in transliteration. Tighten up.
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