«فدع الوعيد فما وعيدك ضائري / أطنين أجنحة الذباب يضير»
Abandon your threat: it cannot harm me. Can the buzz of a fly’s wings inflict harm?
Ḍāʾirī ends the first hemistich and yaḍīr closes the second. Their forms differ, but both belong to the lexical field of causing harm.
The line illustrates derived verbal likeness used to reinforce the speaker’s dismissal of a threat.
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Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry
«فدع الوعيد فما وعيدك ضائري / أطنين أجنحة الذباب يضير»
Abandon your threat: it cannot harm me. Can the buzz of a fly’s wings inflict harm?
Ḍāʾirī ends the first hemistich and yaḍīr closes the second. Their forms differ, but both belong to the lexical field of causing harm.
The line illustrates derived verbal likeness used to reinforce the speaker’s dismissal of a threat.