FWP:
SETS == EXCLAMATION; REPETITION; STRESS-SHIFTING
EXCLAMATION verses: {1,3}; {5,8x};
{7,5}; {17,3};
{17,8}*; {17,9};
{19,6}; {20,5};
{20,8}; {20,9};
{21,11}*; {21,12};
{26,3}; {27,2};
{35,8}; {39,4};
{40,2}; {46,4};
{46,5}; {48,4}*;
{49,11}; {50,1}; {51}, most verses, salaamat ; {56,3}; {57,8}; {64,4};
{66,1}; {68,10x}; {71,7};
{71,8}; {71,10};
{72,3}; {72,7};
{76,1}; {76,3x}, most primitive; {77,6}; {80,3};
{80,11x}**; {84,2x}; {85,7}; {86,8}*, double; {88,4}; {97,8};
{99,4}; {100,2};
{100,5}; {100,7}; {100,8};
{101,5}; {106,2}; {106,3}; {107,2}; {108,7}**;
{110,2}; {112,5};
{112,7}; {112,9};
{114,4}; {117,6x}; {119,9}; {120,2}; {120,4}; {121,5}; {124,4};
{124,6}; {125,9};
{126,3}; {126,4};
{126,10}; {129}; {132,3};
{132,4}; {132,9x}; {133,3}; {137,3x}; {137,5x}; {138,5};
{141,4}**; {148,4};
{148,7}; {148,8};
{149,9x}; {151,1}; {151,2};
{153,1}; {153,5};
{155,2}; {158,2};
{158,5}; {159,2};
{159,7}; {162}; {163,2};
{163,9}; {166,1}; {166,5};
{167,7}; {170,3};
{170,6}; {172,5x};
{173,10}; {178,8};
{179,1}; {179,2};
{179,3}; {189,8};
{191,5}; {193,2}; {193,4};
{199,4}; {201,4};
{201,8}; {201,9};
{202,2}; {202,5};
{202,6}; {202,7};
{202,8}; {203,3};
{204,5}; {206,4}; {208,12};
{208,13}; {208,14}; {214,2};
{214,6}; {215,1};
{215,5}; {216,1};
{228,8}; {230,3};
{230,6}; {230,7};
{231,3}; {232,7};
{234,2}; {234,10}
// {287x,6}; {385x,4}**; {413x,1}; {417x,4}; {423x,2}; {438x,8}
What a study in the extraordinary power of inshaa))iyah speech! This is another very famous, much-loved verse.
Is the beloved's repentance being exclaimed at because it is so quick (since it occurs as soon as she has killed her lover), or so slow (since it occurs only after she has killed him)? As Nazm points out, there's no way to tell: it's both at once. For a classic example of the fickleness of the beloved, see {46,1}.
Is the 'alas!' ironic, or straightforwardly melancholy?
Is the exclamation rueful, or amused, or regretful, or bitter, or detached?
And is the exclamation evoked by the murder itself, or the repentance, or the quickness, or the general nature of 'that quick-repenter'? Shifting the stress will affect how we interpret the verse.
The un-analyzability of this verse (since we have only a few bits of information and a vague, un-pin-down-able exclamation about them) causes Bekhud Dihlavi to consider it a verse of mood. I agree-- the pleasure of it is the intricate texture of all those kinds of haa))e available at once, and flickering in and out of the reader's mind. Doesn't it make you want to recite it, and to linger expressively on the haa))e ?
This verse belongs to the 'dead lover speaks' set; for discussion and more examples, see {57,1}.
Nazm:
That is, the moment she saw the blood, she felt mercy: 'What have I done?'. There was neither any delay in becoming angry, nor any delay in repenting. And it's possible that he might have called her a 'quick-repenter' as a taunt or insult-- that is, when the deed has been irrevocably done, to feel mercy then, is that to repent quickly? (18)
== Nazm page 18