Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 32 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDDE F DGDH D IJFDJJ| Having become tired of my friends in Damascus I went into the desert of Jerusalem and associated with animals till the time when I became a prisoner of the Franks who put me to work with infidels in digging the earth of a moat in Tarapolis when one of the chiefs of Aleppo with whom I had formerly been acquainted recognized me and said What state is this I recited | A |
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| I fled from men to mountain and desert | B |
| Wishing to attend upon no one but God | C |
| Imagine what my state at present is | D |
| When I must be satisfied in a stable of wretches | D |
| The feet in chains with friends | D |
| Is better than to be with strangers in a garden | E |
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| He took pity on my state and ransomed me for ten dinars from the captivity of the Franks taking me to Aleppo where he had a daughter and married me to her with a dowry of one hundred dinars After some time had elapsed she turned out to be ill humoured quarrelsome disobedient abusive in her tongue and embittering my life | F |
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| A bad wife in a good man s house | D |
| Is his hell in this world already | G |
| Alas for a bad consort alas | D |
| Preserve us O Lord from the punishment of fire | H |
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| Once she lengthened her tongue of reproach and said Art thou not the man whom my father purchased from the Franks for ten dinars I replied Yes he bought me for ten dinars and sold me into thy hands for one hundred dinars | D |
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| I heard that a sheep had by a great man | I |
| Been rescued from the jaws and the power of a wolf | J |
| In the evening he stroked her throat with a knife | F |
| Whereon the soul of the sheep complained thus | D |
| 'Thou hast snatched me away from the claws of a wolf | J |
| But at last I see thou art thyself a wolf | J |
Saadi Shirazi
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