Here nazm is not merely poetic meter. It also concerns the ordered relation of words and meanings. If a later text preserves the earlier contrasts, relations, and sentence pattern, its underlying design may remain recognizable despite changes of vocabulary.
A synonym is not always rhetorically equivalent. A chosen word can carry register, allusion, praise, or disparagement that a seemingly interchangeable word fails to convey.
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Conclusion: Literary Borrowing, Iqtibas, Tadmeen, and the Final Arts of Composition
Here nazm is not merely poetic meter. It also concerns the ordered relation of words and meanings. If a later text preserves the earlier contrasts, relations, and sentence pattern, its underlying design may remain recognizable despite changes of vocabulary.
A synonym is not always rhetorically equivalent. A chosen word can carry register, allusion, praise, or disparagement that a seemingly interchangeable word fails to convey.