Analysis of Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 07
Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)
One who had for a considerable time not seen his friend asked him where he had been and said he had been longing. He replied: ‘To be longing is better than to be satisfied.’
Thou hast come late, O intoxicated idol,
We shall not soon let go thy skirt from the hand.
He who sees his sweetheart at long intervals
Is after all better off than if he sees too much of her.
When thou comest with friends to visit me
Although thou comest in peace thou art attacking.
If my sweetheart associates one moment with strangers
It wants but little and I die of jealousy.
She said smiling: ‘I am the lamp of the assembly, O Sa’di,
What is it to me if a moth kills itself?’
Scheme | A XXXXBXXBAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001000111111111110111110101111011011110 11111010010 11111111101 1111111100 110110111111110 111111101 1110111010 1110100110110 111100111100 111011011001011 11111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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