Analysis of Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 49
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
An envious man is avaricious with the wealth of God and hates the guiltless as foes.
I saw a crackbrained little man,
Reviling a possessor of dignity,
Who replied: ‘O fellow, if thou art unlucky,
What guilt is there in lucky men?’
Forbear to wish evil to an envious man
Because the ill-starred fellow is an evil to himself.
What needest thou to show enmity to him
Who has such a foe on the nape of his neck?
Scheme | X ABBXAXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100111101110101011 1101101 100101100 101110111010 11110101 11110111001 01011101110101 1111110011 11101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 513 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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