Analysis of Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 13
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
A parrot, having been imprisoned in a cage with a crow, was vexed by the sight and said: ‘What a loathsome aspect is this! What an odious figure! What cursed object with rude habits! 0 crow of separation, would that the distance of the east from the west were between us.’
Whoever beholds thee when he rises in the morning
The morn of a day of safety becomes evening to him.
An ill-omened one like thyself is fit to keep thee company
But where in the world is one like thee?
More strange still, the crow was similarly distressed by the proximity of the parrot and, having become disgusted, was shouting ‘La haul’, and lamenting the vicissitudes of time. He rubbed the claws of sorrow against each other and said: ‘What ill-luck is this? What base destiny and chameleonlike times? It was befitting my dignity to strut about on a garden-wall in the society of another crow.
‘It is sufficient imprisonment for a devote
To be in the same stable with profligates.
‘What sin have I committed that I have already in this life, as a punishment for it, fallen into the bonds of this calamity in company with such a conceited, uncongenial and heedless fool?’
No one will approach the foot of the wall
Upon which they paint thy portrait.
If thy place were in paradise
Others would select. hell.
I have added this parable to let thee know that no matter how much a learned man may hate an ignorant man the latter hates him equally.
A hermit was among profligates
When one of them, a Balkhi beauty, said:
‘If thou art tired of us sit not sour
For thou art thyself bitter in our midst.’
An assembly joined together like roses and tulips!
Thou art withered wood, growing in its midst,
Like a contrary wind and unpleasant frost,
Like snow inert, like ice bound fast.
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Metre | 0101010100011011110101101011111100101110111011010110101011010011 0101111100010 01101110011011 11111111111100 110011111 111011100001100100101001001010110110010001001111011100111001111111110001111010110011011010100010010101 1101001001001 110011011 1111010111010011101001110010111010001001100101011 1110101101 01111110 1110010 101011 111011001111111011011111100101011100 0101011 111101101 11110111110 1111100101 10101010110010 1110110011 10100100101 11011111 |
Characters | 1,915 |
Words | 323 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 8 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 63 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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