Analysis of Ch 01 Manner of Kings Story 18
A royal prince, having inherited abundant treasures from his father, opened the hand of liberality and satisfied his impulse of generosity by lavishing without stint benefits upon the army and the population.
A tray of lignum aloes will emit no odour.
Place it on fire, it will smell like ambergris.
If thou wishest to be accounted great, be liberal
Because grain will not grow unless it be sown.
One of his courtiers began heedlessly to admonish him, saying: "Former kings have by their exertions accumulated this wealth and deposited it for a useful purpose. Cease this movement because calamities may arise in front and enemies in the rear. It is not meet for thee to be helpless at a time of necessity."
If thou distributest a treasure to the multitude
Each householder will receive a grain of rice.
Why takest thou not from each a barley-corn of silver
That thou mayest accumulate every day a treasure?
The royal prince turned away his face at these words and said: "God the most high has made me the possessor of this country, to enjoy and to bestow, not to guard and to retain."
Qarun, who possessed forty treasure houses, perished. Nushirvan has not died because he obtained a good reputation.
Scheme | A BXXX X XXBB X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011001000101011101001101000101101010011000111000101000010 0111110111 111101111100 1111101011100 01111101111 11110001110101101011110100100110010011010101110010100101010100001111111111010110100 1110101010 1101010111 1111110101110 1110101001010 0101101111110110111110010111010101011110101 11011010101011110110101010 |
Characters | 1,254 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 81 |
Words per line (avg) | 17 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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