LessonsRadd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and PoetryQuiz

«دعاني من ملامكما سفاهًا / فداعي الشوق قبلكما دعاني»
Leave off reproaching me; the caller of longing summoned me before you did.

Fa-dāʿī occurs at the beginning of the second hemistich, and daʿānī at its close. Both share the root d-ʿ-w but differ in form and syntactic role.

The positional pattern is second hemistich opening → ending, while the verbal relationship is derivation.

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Linking the beginning and ending of the second hemistich

Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry

«دعاني من ملامكما سفاهًا / فداعي الشوق قبلكما دعاني»
Leave off reproaching me; the caller of longing summoned me before you did.

Fa-dāʿī occurs at the beginning of the second hemistich, and daʿānī at its close. Both share the root d-ʿ-w but differ in form and syntactic role.

The positional pattern is second hemistich opening → ending, while the verbal relationship is derivation.