The Rubáiyát is a collection of Persian quatrains that was written by Omar Khayyâm during in twelfth century in Iran. In 1859, the British poet and translator Edward FitzGerald introduced the first English translation to English readers. As a poet, he tried to recreate the rhythmic pattern of the Persian quatrain in his translation. In other words, the Victorian translator tried to introduce twelfth century Persian metrics into nineteenth-century English literature. Applying the theories of translation specialists and linguists such as Derek Attridge, André Lefevere and Antoine Berman, this paper aims to examine how FitzGerald rendered the genre of the Persian quatrain and the exceptional form of Khayyam's quatrains into English while considering the established norms of English literature. The main objective of this study is to assess the changes in meaning and reception between the Persian text and the English translation of Khayyam’s masterpiece.