«ومن كان بالبيض الكواعب مغرما / فما زلت بالبيض القواضب مغرما»
Others may be enamored of fair young women; I remain enamored of gleaming, cutting swords.
Mughramā appears at the end of the first and second hemistichs. The word al-bīḍ also recurs with different referents, fair women and bright blades.
The principal placement for mughramā is first hemistich ending → second hemistich ending, with repetition. The other echo intensifies the comparison but must be analyzed separately.
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Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry
«ومن كان بالبيض الكواعب مغرما / فما زلت بالبيض القواضب مغرما»
Others may be enamored of fair young women; I remain enamored of gleaming, cutting swords.
Mughramā appears at the end of the first and second hemistichs. The word al-bīḍ also recurs with different referents, fair women and bright blades.
The principal placement for mughramā is first hemistich ending → second hemistich ending, with repetition. The other echo intensifies the comparison but must be analyzed separately.