Analysis of Ch 01 Manner of Kings Story 36

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)



There were two brothers: one of them in the service of the sultan and the other gaining his livelihood by the effort of his arm. The wealthy man once asked his destitute brother why he did not serve the sultan in order to be delivered from the hardship of labouring. He replied: "Why labourest thou not to be delivered from the baseness of service because philosophers have said that it is better to eat barley bread and to sit than to gird oneself with a golden belt and to stand in service?"

To leaven mortar of quicklime with the hand  
              Is better than to hold them on the breast before the amir.  
              My precious life was spent in considering  
              What I am to eat in summer and wear in winter.  
              O ignoble belly, be satisfied with one bread  
              Rather than to bend the back in service.


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Poetic Form
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Characters 867
Words 149
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 6
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 88
Words per line (avg) 21
Letters per stanza (avg) 308
Words per stanza (avg) 73
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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