Analysis of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 37
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
A dervish arrived in a place, the owner of which was of a noble disposition, and had surrounded himself with a company of distinguished and eloquent men, each of whom uttered something elegant or jocular, according to the fashion of wits. The dervish who had travelled through the desert and was fatigued had eaten nothing. One of the company asked him by way of encouragement likewise to say something. The dervish replied: ‘I do not possess distinction and eloquence like you and have read nothing so you must be satisfied with one distich of mine.’ The company having agreed with pleasure he recited:
‘I am hungry and opposite to a table of food
Like a bachelor at the door of a bath of females.’
The company, having thus been apprised of his famished condition, produced a table with bread but as he began to eat greedily the host said: ‘Friend, at any rate stop a while till my servants roast some minced meat’; whereon the dervish lifted his head and recited:
‘Do not order pounded meat for my table.
To a pounded man simple bread is pounded meat.’
Scheme | A XX A XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001001010111101001001010011010010100100111110101001100010101011010111010100101110101101001111101001111001001111010100100110111011111011111010010011101010 11100100101011 1010010110111 01001011011110010010101111101111000111110110111101111101010110010 11101011110 101011011101 |
Characters | 1,145 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 140 |
Words per line (avg) | 31 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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