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

Avoid three mistakes: treating any word in hemistich two as the “ending”; treating every word of hemistich one as its opening; and classifying an entire verse by one pair when several echoes coexist.

Instead, mark the actual two expressions, establish their locations, and then study their lexical relationship and meaning.

A line containing both repetition and jinās may require more than one distinct observation.

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Frequent errors in locating the echo

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

Avoid three mistakes: treating any word in hemistich two as the “ending”; treating every word of hemistich one as its opening; and classifying an entire verse by one pair when several echoes coexist.

Instead, mark the actual two expressions, establish their locations, and then study their lexical relationship and meaning.

A line containing both repetition and jinās may require more than one distinct observation.