Analysis of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 08
A great man was praised in an assembly and, his good qualities being extolled, he raised his head and said: ‘I am such as I know myself to be.’
O thou who reckonest my virtues, refrainest from giving me pain,
These are my open, and thou knowest not my hidden, qualities.
My person is, to the eyes of the world, of good aspect
But my internal wickedness makes me droop my head with shame.
The peacock is for his beauteous colours by the people
Praised whilst he is ashamed of his ugly feet.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111010100111001001111101111111111 1111110111011 111100111110100 1101101101111 110101001111111 01111111010 11110111101 |
| Characters | 565 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 55 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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