تَصْحُ وَالشَّيْبُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِي أَلَمَّا
Will you still not come to your senses now that gray hair has appeared on my head?
The reference to gray hair supplies the reason for urgency: age should awaken one from heedlessness. The poet addresses his heart to stress the need for repentance and restraint.
The questions do more than request information; they reproach and warn. Interrogative and vocative structures work together to produce that rhetorical effect.
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Nidāʾ: Definition, Eight Particles, Nearness and Distance, and Rhetorical Purposes
تَصْحُ وَالشَّيْبُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِي أَلَمَّا
Will you still not come to your senses now that gray hair has appeared on my head?
The reference to gray hair supplies the reason for urgency: age should awaken one from heedlessness. The poet addresses his heart to stress the need for repentance and restraint.
The questions do more than request information; they reproach and warn. Interrogative and vocative structures work together to produce that rhetorical effect.