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FWP:
SETS
MOTIFS == GAZE; MIRROR
NAMES
TERMSThe first line doesn't specify a subject; we can only tell that it's a third person singular one. This makes us curious, and under mushairah performance conditions we're obliged to wait to have our curiosity satisfied. Then, of course, in the second line it's not really satisfied at all. The line simply asks the same question(s) that we ourselves would ask. But the complex possibilities for answering the question don't alter the (faux-naif) effect of simplicity, or the mood of amazement that the verse creates.