Analysis of Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 21
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
Whatever takes place quickly is not permanent.
I have heard that eastern loam is made
In forty days into a porcelain cup.
A hundred are daily made in Baghdad.
Hence thou seest also their price is vile.
A little fowl issues from the egg and seeks food
Whilst man’s progeny has no knowledge, sense or discernment.
Nevertheless the former attains nothing when grown up
Whilst the latter surpasses all beings in dignity and excellence.
Glass is everywhere, and therefore of no account,
But a ruby difficult to get, and therefore precious.
Scheme | A XBXXXABXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111011100 111110111 01010101001 0101101010 111101111 010110101011 11100111011010 0010100110111 101001011001000100 1110011101 1010100110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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