Analysis of Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Admonition 11
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
It is incumbent upon a padshah to give way to anger towards his slaves only so far as to retain the confidence of his friends. The fire of anger first burns him who has given cause for it and afterwards the flame may or may not reach the foe.
It is not proper for sons of Adam born of earth
To inflate their heads with pride, violence and wind.
Thou who displayest so much heat and obstinacy
Must be, I think, not of earth but of fire.
I visited a hermit in the country of Bilqan
And requested him to purge me of ignorance by instruction.
He replied: ‘Be patient like earth, O lawyer,
Or else, bury under the earth all thy learning.’
Scheme | X XXXABBAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101111110011110111101010011101011011111101110100011111101 1111011110111 101111110001 11111101000 11111111110 1100010001011 0010111111001010 10111011110 111010011110 |
Characters | 715 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 55 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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