Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 16 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 16 that begins with:

Moses, to whom be salutation, beheld a dervish who had on account of his nudity concealed himself in the sand exclaiming: ‘O Moses, utter a...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXX X XXXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1001010001001011101001000101001010110100100001011011101001111010101101001010010011010101001110011101010100101010101011010101101101011110010111001010001010 00101011 111010100101 0110110110110 10101101001 10100001010010101110010011 11111001011 1111011011101001 10110011001011 011010001001 1110101010101 11001101011 01001011001010110101 1111111 11010011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 95 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, on, to, moses, and, that, he, dervish are repeated.

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