«كَيْفَ أَسْلُو وَأَنْتِ حِقْفٌ وَغُصْنٌ وَغَزَالٌ لَحْظًا وَقَدًّا وَرِدْفًا»
“How could I forget you, whose glance, stature, and form call to mind a gazelle, a branch, and a dune?”
The first set is dune, branch, gazelle, while the second is glance, stature, hips. The semantic pairings are:
Dune → hips
Branch → stature
Gazelle → glance
The later elements are not presented in the same order as the initial list. This is unordered laff wa-nashr.
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ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part I
«كَيْفَ أَسْلُو وَأَنْتِ حِقْفٌ وَغُصْنٌ وَغَزَالٌ لَحْظًا وَقَدًّا وَرِدْفًا»
“How could I forget you, whose glance, stature, and form call to mind a gazelle, a branch, and a dune?”
The first set is dune, branch, gazelle, while the second is glance, stature, hips. The semantic pairings are:
Dune → hips
Branch → stature
Gazelle → glance
The later elements are not presented in the same order as the initial list. This is unordered laff wa-nashr.