Analysis of Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 10
I was constantly engaged in prayer, at the head of the prophet
Yahia's tomb in the cathedral mosque of Damascus, when one of the Arab
kings, notorious for his injustice, happened to arrive on a pilgrimage
to it, who offered his supplications and asked for compliance with his
needs.
The dervish and the plutocrat are slaves on the floor of this
threshold
And those who are the wealthiest are the most needy.
Then he said to me: 'Dervishes being zealous and veracious in
their dealings, unite thy mind to mine, for I am apprehensive of a
powerful enemy.' I replied: 'Have mercy upon thy feeble subjects
that thou mayest not be injured by a strong foe.'
With a powerful arm and the strength of the wrist
To break the five fingers of a poor man is sin.
Let him be afraid who spares not the fallen
Because if he falls no one will take hold of his hand.
Whoever sows bad seed and expects good fruit
Has cudgelled his brains for nought and begotten vain imaginations.
Extract the cotton from thy ears and administer justice to thy
people
And if thou failest to do so, there is a day of retribution.
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other
Having been created of one essence.
When the calamity of time afflicts one limb
The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
If thou hast no sympathy for the troubles of others
Thou art unworthy to be called by the name of a man.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110001011011010 110001011010111010 10100110101010110100 111101101101011 1 01000101110111 1 0111010010110 1111111010010 1101111111101010 1001001011100111010 11111101011 101001001101 110110101111 11101111010 0111111111111 01011100111 111111001010010 1010111001001011 10 011111111011010 01110111110 1010101110 100100110111 0101100111 11111001010110 11010111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,382 |
Words | 257 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 4, 9, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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