Analysis of Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Admonition 10
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
Wrath beyond measure produces estrangement and untimely kindness destroys authority. Be neither so harsh as to disgust the people with thee nor so mild as to embolden them.
Severity and mildness together are best
Like a bleeder who is a surgeon and also applies a salve.
A wise man uses neither severity to excess
Nor mildness; for it lessens his authority.
He neither exalts himself too much
Nor exposes himself at once to contempt.
A youth said to his father: ‘O wise man,
Give me for instruction one advice like an aged person.’
He said: ‘Be kind but not to such a degree
That a sharp-toothed wolf may become audacious.’
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011001001000101001010011011110101011111110101 01000101011 101110100100101 0111010010011 11111010100 110010111 10100111101 0111110111 11101010111110 11111111001 10111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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