Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 03 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 03 that begins with:

I was in Diarbekr, the guest of an old man, who possessed abundant wealth and a beautiful son. One night he narrated to me that he had all his life...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 1101001011110101011010011111100111110111011011011000100100100010100100100101111101011101001110010101011101011000001010010011111011111110011001000010101001001010110100010 001011100 010110 1011101 00101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 165 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 30

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, to, i, his, son, boy, he, father, of, tree, and, in are repeated.

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