Analysis of Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 18
An Arab suffering in the desert from extreme thirst recited:
‘Would that before my death
I could one day enjoy my wish
That a river’s waves might strike my knee
And I might fill my water-bag.’
In the same manner another traveller lost himself in an extensive region having neither any strength nor food left but he possessed some money and roamed about and the road leading him nowhere he perished from exhaustion. Some people afterwards discovered his corpse with the money in front of it and the following written on the ground:
If possessed of all the Ja’feri gold,
It will avail nothing to a hungry man.
To a poor man burnt in the desert
Boiled turnips are more valuable than pure silver.
Scheme | X XXXX X XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010000101011010 110111 11110111 101011111 01111101 0011001010010101010101010101111110111001010011011110101011010001011101001110010010101 10111011 11011010101 101110010 110111001110 |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 56 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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