Ka-sīd al-ghaḍā associates the horse’s urgent speed with an alert desert wolf. Ka-anna al-burayn wa-l-damālīj ʿulliqat uses bracelets hanging on branches to describe adorned arms. Both similes borrow from nature, but they do different work.
The first conveys speed and energy; the second suggests physical form and ornament. The “shortening” of an overcast day is an additional figure: not a real change in time, but a depiction of felt duration. The speaker moves among action, bodily portraiture, and psychological experience.