Analysis of Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 25
A man whose hands and feet had been amputated killed a millipede and a pious passer-by exclaimed: ‘Praised be Allah! In spite of the thousand feet he possessed he could not escape from a man without hands and feet when his fate had overtaken him.’
When the life-taking foe comes in the rear
Fate ties the legs of a running man.
At the moment when the enemy has slowly arrived
It is useless to draw the Kayanian bow.
| Scheme | X XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 0111011110010100101010111100110101101111011010110111111001 1011011001 110110101 10101010011001 111011011 |
| Characters | 457 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 66 |
| Words per line (avg) | 16 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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