FWP:
SETS == EXCLAMATION;
FILL-IN
WINE: {49,1}
That idiomatic form chal nikalnaa is one that I had to ask people about, since I thought it might have some kind of double meaning. But apparently it doesn't; it just means 'to begin, to start doing something'. Sometimes, according to S. R. Faruqi, it can have slight erotic overtones.
In the first line, the lover seems to be muttering to himself in amazement. We can't, of course, tell what kind of amazement. Is he relieved to escape so lightly, or disappointed that his witticisms produced no reaction, or simply surprised at her unusual aquiescence? Under mushairah performance conditions, we of course have to wait for the second line and hope that it will enlighten us.
Even when we hear the second line, however, we can't tell
what alternative behavior on her part the lover might be envisioning. The
commentators are sure that what she would have started doing is abusing the
lover, but the verse is careful to leave the question open. Perhaps if she
had been intoxicated, she might have started flirting, or teasing the lover
in return, or doing something else that we can't tell from the verse but that
long experience has taught the lover to expect. Since the whole verse is a
sort of thoughtful mumble that the lover is saying to himself, it's not surprising
that it remains cryptic. We readers have to do the work ourselves, by supplying
the missing elements of behavior according to our own experience. The intimacy
of the verse is the real hook: it's as though we're overhearing the lover
as he talks to himself, trying to make sense of her behavior (and thus of
his own prospects too).
Nazm:
That is, it's surprising that I would tease her and she would say nothing. Here [in the second line] it would have been better [in idiomatic usage] to cut out the word 'wine'. (202)
== Nazm page 202