Analysis of Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 04
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
A scholar of note had a controversy with an unbeliever but, being
unable to cope with him in argument, shook his head and retired.
Someone asked him how it came to pass that, with all his eloquence and
learning, he had been unable vanquish an irreligious man. He
replied: ‘My learning is in the Quran, in tradition and in the sayings
of sheikhs, which he neither believes in nor listens to. Then of
what use is it to me to hear him blaspheming?’
To him of whom thou canst not rid thyself by the Quran and tradition
The best reply is if thou dost not reply anything.
Scheme | ABCDEFAGA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110100111110 01011110100111001 1111111111111000 10111010101111 011101001001000010 111110010110111 1111111111 1111111111010010 0101111110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 569 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 445 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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