Analysis of Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 39

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)



Intellect may become captive to lust like a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

Bid farewell to pleasure in a house  
        Where the shouting of a woman is loud.


Scheme X XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1010110111011001111010 11110001 1010101011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 184
Words 34
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 2
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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