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A Wisdom of a Twinkling

Svetlana Rakhimova

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You dropped a jug when you were drunk the other day.
It fell on stones and it dashed to pieces.
And suddenly it said, “I have become a useless pile of splinters.
A twinkling of an eye ago I was like you, intact, my friend”.

(by Mahsati Ganjavi, 1089–1159
translation by Svetlana Rakhimova, 2013)
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Submitted by SvetlanaRa on October 16, 2013

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Scheme XAAX BB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 299
Words 55
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 2
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