Analysis of Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 14
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
I had a companion with whom I had travelled for years and eaten salt. Boundless intimacy subsisted between us till at last he suffered my mind to be grieved for the sake of some paltry gain and our friendship closed. Despite of an this, however, mutual attachment of heart still subsisted between us because I heard him one day reciting in an assembly the following two distichs of my composition:
When my sweetheart enters sweetly smiling
She adds more salt to my bleeding wound.
How would it be if the tip of her curls fell into my hand
Like the sleeve of the bountiful into the hands of dervishes?
Some friends bore witness not so much to the gracefulness of these verses as to the beauty of my conduct which they approved; and among the rest, the said friend likewise added his share of praise, regretting the loss of our former companionship and confessing his fault so that his affection became known. Accordingly I sent the following distichs and made peace:
Was not there a covenant of friendship between us?
Thou hast been cruel and not loving.
I once tied my heart to thee, disregarding the world.
Not knowing thou wouldst turn back so soon.
If thou yet desirest conciliation, return
Because thou wilt be more beloved than before.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010111110110101101000101111111011111101111010101010111110100010111101101111110100101001001111010 111101010 111111101 111110110110111 10110100010111 1111011110111101101011011101001010111101111010011101001000101111101001101001101001011 1110100110011 111100110 111111101001 110111111 1111001001 01111101101 |
Characters | 1,315 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 84 |
Words per line (avg) | 18 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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