This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 21 that begins with:

It is related that a sultan thus addressed a miserly beggar who had accumulated great riches: ‘It is evident that thou possessest boundless wealth...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XaaX X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00010101010101001011010101100010011100101111101110111111100110110001010010001000001010010010100101100001001010010101000100011010011111010011101010111001010001011000101010100101 001000101001 1100011001101 110110011 1011111000101 111101001000100101010101100010011001010000100111100101 01011000100100 1101010100 11101101 001011111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 129 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 23
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of, thou, be, not, to, with are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 21;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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