Ighārah and maskh involves rearranging the borrowed wording or selecting part of it. The result may improve upon, equal or fall below the earlier composition, depending on added or lost literary merit.
Bashshār and Sallām illustrate concision and excellence of composition. The comparison between Abū Tammām and Abū al-Ṭayyib raises more complex questions about imaginative predication, miserliness and generosity attributed to time, and the temporal implications of the words.
The next category, ilmām and its divisions, concerns taking an earlier meaning without taking its wording. That distinction provides the next analytical boundary.