Analysis of Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 22

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)



Affairs succeed by patience and a hasty man fails.

I saw with my eyes in the desert  
        That a slow man overtook a fast one.  
        A galloping horse, fleet like the wind, fell back  
        Whilst the camel-man continued slowly his progress.


Scheme X XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110001011 111110010 101101011 01001110111 101010101011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 264
Words 43
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 4
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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