Analysis of Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 09
A sick man having been asked what his heart desired replied: ‘That it may not desire anything.’
When the bowels are full and the belly pains
There is no use in all other things being right.
| Scheme | X XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101111101001111101010 10101100101 111101101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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