كَأَنَّ مُثَارَ النَّقْعِ فَوْقَ رُؤُوسِنَا وَأَسْيَافَنَا لَيْلٌ تَهَاوَى كَوَاكِبُهُ
The dust and swords resemble a night with falling stars.
The dark cloud of dust and the flashes of swords form a single scene resembling night with falling stars. Reducing it to “swords resemble stars” may aid immediate understanding but removes the composite relation between dust and darkness, swords and falling light.
A rigorous analysis identifies the local correspondences, then explains why their integration produces the effect. The image is representational because of its structured configuration, not because it uses many words.