ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: Travel, Camel Gait and Ostrich Imagery (verses 20–30)

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• What is the chief contrast in verse 20?
• What does muljam describe in adham muljam?
• In wa-ḥashiyyatī sarj, what is sarj grammatically?
• What does ʿabl al-shawā describe?
• To what does nabīl al-maḥzim point?
• What is the rhetorical force of hal tuballighannī?
• What is shadaniyyah in this passage?
• In verse 22, what does muṣarram relate to?
• What does ghibba al-surā mean?
• What quality does khaṭṭārah depict?
• What is the role of wakhd here?
• What is the principal comparator in verse 24?
• What is al-mansimayn associated with?
• What is the grammatical role of ʿashiyyatan in verse 24?
• What does quluṣ al-naʿām refer to in this context?
• Why repeat taʾwī ... kamā awat in verse 25?
• What does ḥizaq denote in ḥizaq yamāniyyah?
• What does qullata raʾsihi mean?
• What picture does ḥadj ʿalā naʿsh create?
• What is the grammatical form of yatbaʿna?
• What does ṣaʿl describe in verse 27?
• What does zawrāʾ indicate in verse 28?
• How does the source commentary read ḥiyāḍ al-Daylam?
• What gives this sequence its descriptive force?
• What is the basic sense of yanʾā?
• Which sense is particularly evoked by hazij al-ʿashiyy?
• What animal does hirr janīb picture?
• What does kullamā express here?
• What is specified by bi-l-yadayn wa-bi-l-fam?
• What is the main descriptive movement across verses 20–30?