وَهُوَ يَطْبَعُ الْأَسْجَاعَ
And he was stamping out finely shaped passages of rhymed prose.
Yaṭbaʿu literally evokes impressing a stamp or imprint. Asjāʿ is the plural of sajʿ, prose with corresponding sounds at phrase endings.
The passage is describing crafted oratory, not necessarily poetry in a formal meter.
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The Ṣanʿāʾ Maqāmah: The Mysterious Preacher and His Eloquence
وَهُوَ يَطْبَعُ الْأَسْجَاعَ
And he was stamping out finely shaped passages of rhymed prose.
Yaṭbaʿu literally evokes impressing a stamp or imprint. Asjāʿ is the plural of sajʿ, prose with corresponding sounds at phrase endings.
The passage is describing crafted oratory, not necessarily poetry in a formal meter.