Ghazal 234, Verse 13

Nazm:

The word 'boat/notebook' has an affinity with 'ocean/meter/ [ba;hr]. (267)

== Nazm page 267

Bekhud Dihlavi:

He says, the page has become finished and praise still remains. A chapter is required for this ocean of encomium. (326)

Bekhud Mohani:

The page has become finished, and the praise hasn't become finished. For this boundless ocean (praise) a notebook is necessary. What use is a single page? In the meaning of safiinah is an iihaam , because its meaning is 'boat', which has an affinity with 'ocean'. (507)

FWP:

SETS == POETRY; WORDPLAY
WRITING: {7,3}

This verse appears to be a kind of concluding verse, wrapping up the four-verse quasi-verse-set that has just preceded it. That four-verse praise-set (praise-poem?) has a strikingly parallel introductory verse as well, in {234,8}. The two frame the four actual praise verses like bookends.

We can feel that the praise-drug is wearing off now, because this verse actually has something going on in it! It has some enjoyable bits of literary wordplay. Of course, by Ghalibian standards it's not all that much-- but compared to the previous four verses, it's a tour de force of sophistication.

On the translation of tamaam hu))aa as 'has become complete', see {38,1}.