"Consider Me Gone" references the first quatrain of Shakespeare's Sonnet 35. The refrain is a single quatrain with the same rhyming pattern. A rhyming quatrain is chosen by the picker. A "ruba'i" (quatrain) also usually has the rhyme "aa, ba". Dravidian metres are used throughout although there is a quatrain in a Sanskrit metre. This quatrain of Khayyam connotes the transitory essence of life and worthless materialistic lifestyle. The third quatrain generally introduces an unexpected sharp thematic or imagistic "turn", the volta. In the last quatrain of his sixth "century" he specifically attacks astrologers. A strong pause at the close of each quatrain is usual for Shakespeare. This parallels with the undertones of the sixth quatrain. His widow placed a stone over his grave inscribed with a quatrain from "Tom Bowling". The same technique occurs in the second quatrain. Note in the second line of the fourth quatrain the words "Medina" and "Muhammet". This volta (turn) happens in the fourth quatrain. The second quatrain contains more abstract concepts.