Analysis of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 17
A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian who had arrived from Kufah with the Hejaz-caravan of pilgrims joined us, strutted about and recited:
‘I am neither riding a camel nor under a load like a camel.
I am neither a lord of subjects nor the slave of a potentate.
Grief for the present, or distress for the past, does not trouble me.
I draw my breath in comfort and thus spend my life.’
A camel-rider shouted to him: ‘O dervish, where art thou going? Return, for thou wilt expire from hardships.’ He paid no attention but entered the desert and marched. When we reached the station at the palm-grove of Mahmud, the rich man was on the point of death and the dervish, approaching his pillow, said: ‘We have not expired from hardship but thou hast died on a dromedary.’
A man wept all night near the head of a patient.
When the day dawned he died and the patient revived.
Many a fleet charger had fallen dead
While a lame ass reached the station alive.
Often healthy persons were in the soil
Buried and the wounded did not die.
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Metre | 0101010011011110110110111010010 111010010110011010 1110011101011010 1101010110111101 111101001111 0101010111101111001111011101110101100100111101010111100111101110010010110111101110111110100 011111011010 101111001001 1001101101 1011101001 1010100001 100010111 |
Characters | 1,129 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 67 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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