Analysis of Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 05
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
Galenus saw a fool hanging on with his hands to the collar of a learned man and insulting him, whereon he said: ‘If he were learned he would not have come to this pass with an ignorant man.’
Two wise men do not contend and quarrel
Nor does a scholar fight with a contemptible fellow.
If an ignorant man in his rudeness speaks harshly
An intelligent man tenderly reconciles his heart.
Two pious men keep a hair between them untorn
And so does a mild with a headstrong man.
If however both sides are fools
If there be a chain they will snap it.
An ill-humoured man insulted someone.
He bore it and replied: ‘O man of happy issue,
I am worse than thou canst say that I am
Because I know thou art not aware of my faults as I am.
Scheme | A XXXXAAXXXXBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011011111010101100101111110111111111111001 1111101010 11010110010010 1110010110110 1010011001011 11011010111 011011011 1101111 111011111 11110101 1110011111010 1111111111 011111101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 832 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 284 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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