Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 13 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 13 that begins with:

A dervish wanted something and a man told him that a certain individual possessed untold wealth who, if he were made aware of his want, would not...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 0101010101111010101000101110101010011101001001001001101010011110100101010110111010101110010010111010001010100011011111011011010100111101 101101000010110 0101100111 011001111001 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 149 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 26

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, him, to, thy, dervish, it, his are repeated.

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