وَهِمَّتُهُ الصُّغْرَى أَجَلُّ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ
Even his least aspiration surpasses the age in grandeur.
This completes the previous line. The great aspirations are described as boundless; then even the smallest is magnified beyond comparison. The combined movement intensifies praise.
When analyzing predicate placement in poetry, the increasing force of praise matters as much as the grammatical order. A mechanical restriction reading would obscure why the lines were arranged in this way.
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Delaying and Fronting the Predicate: Restriction, Emphasis, and Anticipation
وَهِمَّتُهُ الصُّغْرَى أَجَلُّ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ
Even his least aspiration surpasses the age in grandeur.
This completes the previous line. The great aspirations are described as boundless; then even the smallest is magnified beyond comparison. The combined movement intensifies praise.
When analyzing predicate placement in poetry, the increasing force of praise matters as much as the grammatical order. A mechanical restriction reading would obscure why the lines were arranged in this way.