Analysis of Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 10
The wife of a dervish had become enceinte and when the time of her confinement was at hand, the dervish who had no child during all his life said: ‘If God the most high and glorious presents me with a son, I shall bestow everything I possess as alms upon dervishes, except this patched garment of mine which I am wearing.’ It happened that the infant was a son. He rejoiced and gave a banquet to the dervishes, as he had promised. Some years afterwards when I returned from a journey to Syria, I passed near the locality of the dervish and asked about his circumstances but was told that he had been put in prison by the police. Asking for the cause, I was told that his son, having become drunk, quarrelled and having shed the blood of a man, had fled; whereon his father was instead of him loaded with a chain on his neck and heavy fetters on his legs. I replied: ‘He had himself asked God the most high and glorious for this calamity.’
If pregnant women, O man of intellect,
Bring forth serpents at the time of birth,
It is better in the opinion of the wise
Than to give birth to a wicked progeny.
Scheme | A XXXA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01101010110101100101110101111101111110110100101101110110101110110111101111110110101010110101010101111101110011011010110011100100101001011100111111110101001101011111111001110101011011111101011110101111010101111011101110110100110100 1101011110 111010111 111000010101 11111010100 |
Characters | 1,154 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 173 |
Words per line (avg) | 42 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 433 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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