وَكَشْحٍ لَطِيفٍ كَالْجَدِيلِ مُخَصَّرٍ
وَسَاقٍ كَأُنْبُوبِ السَّقِيِّ الْمُذَلَّلِ
“And a delicate waist, shaped like a slender twisted leather cord, and a leg like the smooth shoot of a cultivated, bent-down date palm.”
Kashḥin laṭīf portrays a slim, proportionate waist. Ka-l-jadīl compares it with a slender leather cord. Sāqin ka-unbūbi al-saqiyyi al-mudhallal compares the lower leg to a smooth, tender palm shoot associated with a well-tended tree.
The two comparisons have distinct subjects: the waist in the first and the lower leg in the second. Their points of resemblance also differ in nuance, so they should not be merged into a single unspecific compliment.