LessonsIghārah and Maskh: Recasting Verse, Eloquence and Literary AppraisalQuiz

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Taking all of the wording while altering its arrangement.

Nazm is not restricted to poetic meter or rhyme; it also concerns the relative order, syntax and semantic connection of words. An author may retain much of the vocabulary while reconstructing the compositional relations.

A fresh word order or syntactic arrangement may change the effect of a statement even where the key words are shared. The merit of such taking depends on whether the new arrangement actually achieves an expressive improvement.

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First form: changing the arrangement

Ighārah and Maskh: Recasting Verse, Eloquence and Literary Appraisal

أخذ اللفظ كله مع تغيير لنظمه
Taking all of the wording while altering its arrangement.

Nazm is not restricted to poetic meter or rhyme; it also concerns the relative order, syntax and semantic connection of words. An author may retain much of the vocabulary while reconstructing the compositional relations.

A fresh word order or syntactic arrangement may change the effect of a statement even where the key words are shared. The merit of such taking depends on whether the new arrangement actually achieves an expressive improvement.