Just reading that this is a form used by Robert Frost I think it may be a favorite. I say this before actually writing this form so we shall see…

Moving South

Winter feels alive and cold
Making my bones brittle and old
As snow falls I find my heart partly dies
And so I hide in my blanket fold.

The shining sun is whispering lies
Watch a flurry drop as it flies
Coating the land in a blanket of white
Reflecting the blue and cloudless skies

Warm by day and cold by night
Slipping on ice gives me a fright
Moving down south solves it all
Now living under a sun shining bright

©2023 CBialczak

Here are the rules of the interlocking rubaiyat:

• The poem is comprised of quatrains following an aaba rhyme pattern.
• Each successive quatrain picks up the unrhymed line as the rhyme for that stanza. So a three-stanza rubaiyat might rhyme so: aaba/bbcb/ccdc. Sometimes the final stanza, as in Frost’s example above, rhymes all four lines.
• Lines are usually tetrameter and pentameter.