Analysis of Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 04
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
One day, in the pride of youth, I had travelled hard and arrived perfectly exhausted in the evening at the foot of an acclivity. A weak old man, who had likewise been following the caravan, came and asked me why I was sleeping, this not being the place for it. I replied: ‘How am I to travel, having lost the use of my feet?’ He said: ‘Hast thou not heard that it is better to walk gently and to halt now and then than to run and to become exhausted?’
O thou who desirest to reach the station
Take my advice and learn patience.
An Arab horse gallops twice in a race.
A camel ambles gently night and day.
| Scheme | X XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11001111110100110001000101011110111111110001010111111011100111101111110101011111111111111011100111011110101010 111111010 11010110 110111001 0101010101 |
| Characters | 681 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 93 |
| Words per line (avg) | 24 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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