Analysis of Ch 01 Manner of Kings Story 17
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
Several men were in my company whose external appearance displayed the adornment of piety. A great man who had conceived a very good opinion of these persons had assigned them a fixed allowance but, after one of them had done something unbecoming the profession of dervishes, his opinion changed and they fell into disgrace. I desired in some way to save the allowance of my friends and intended to wait upon the great man but the doorkeeper would not allow me to enter and was rude. I pardoned him, because it has been said:
The door of an amir, vezier or sultan
Is not to be approached without an introduction.
When a dog or a doorkeeper sees a stranger
The former takes hold of his skirt, the latter of his collar.
When those who could at any time approach the presence of the said great man became aware of my case, they took me in with compliments and desired to assign me a high seat but I humbly took a lower one and said:
"Allow me who am the smallest slave
To sit in the line of slaves."
He said: "Allah, Allah, what need is there for such words?"
If thou sittest on my head and eyes
I shall be polite, for thou art polite.
In short, I took a seat and we conversed on a variety of topics till the affair of the error of my companions turned up and I said:
"What crime has my lord seen, who was bountiful,
To make the slave despicable in his sight?
To God that magnanimity and bounty is surrendered
Which beholds the crime but nevertheless bestows the bread."
The governor, being pleased with these words, ordered the support of my friends to be attended to as before and the arrears to be made good. I expressed my gratitude, kissed the ground of obedience, apologized for my boldness, and said:
"Since the Ka’bah has become the Qiblah of wants from distant lands
The people go to visit it from many farsangs.
Thou must suffer the importunity of such as we are
Because no one throws stones on a tree without fruit."
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Metre | 1010011001010010010010110001111010101010111010110101011011111100100010111010101101011010011110010111001011010111010110111100111101011111 0111011110 111101011010 10110101010 010111110101110 1111110101010101110101111111011000010101101111101010101 011110101 1100111 1110101111111 11111101 1110111101 0111010101100100110100110101101011011 11111111100 11010100011 11110101010 110110010101 0100101111100011111101011010001111110111010110100010111001 10110101111101 010111011101 11100111111 011111101011 |
Characters | 2,021 |
Words | 365 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 72 |
Words per line (avg) | 17 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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