Analysis of Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 27
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
A thief said to a mendicant: ‘Art thou not ashamed to stretch out thy hand for a grain of silver to every sordid fellow?’ He replied:
‘To hold out the hand for a grain of silver
Is better than to get it cut off for one dane and a half.’
| Scheme | X XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101111011111110111011001010101 11101101110 110111111111001 |
| Characters | 277 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 60 |
| Words per line (avg) | 17 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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