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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

Note 310 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN, (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation

The stanza is called Al-Mukhammas = cinquains; the quatrains and the "bob," or "burden," always preserve the same consonance. It ends with a Koranic lieu commun of Moslem morality.

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