Analysis of A Rule Of Life
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 1818 (Oryol, Oryol Governorate) – 1883 ( Bougival, Seine-et-Oise)
If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly, and even to harm him,' said a crafty old knave to me, 'you reproach him with the very defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself. Be indignant ... and reproach him!
'To begin with, it will set others thinking you have not that vice.
'In the second place, your indignation may well be sincere.... You can turn to account the pricks of your own conscience.
If you, for instance, are a turncoat, reproach your opponent with having no convictions!
'If you are yourself slavish at heart, tell him reproachfully that he is slavish ... the slave of civilisation, of Europe, of Socialism!'
'One might even say, the slave of anti-slavishness,' I suggested.
'You might even do that,' assented the cunning knave.
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Metre | 1111011010100010111101011111011101010111110100110100011 1011111101011111 001011010111011111010111110 111101010110101101010 1110110111111111001111101100 111010111011010 11101110101 |
Characters | 787 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 83 |
Words per line (avg) | 19 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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