The cumulative nature of verbal sentences at textual thresholds in the poets of Al-Munsifaat

Abstract

The cumulative nature of verbs is not limited to morphological or syntactic repetition, but extends to the level of temporal and semantic transformation. The succession of verbs within a verse creates an escalating internal movement, charging the text with rhetorical energy that enables it to touch the conscience and express successive psychological or eventual transformations. This cumulative nature also contributes to creating an internal rhythm that harmonizes with the external rhythm of the poetic meter, giving the text musical richness and semantic dynamism. It has become striking in Arabic poetry, both ancient and modern, that this phenomenon is deliberately employed to generate a state of kinetic and emotional intensity.

Successive verbs are often used to denote continuity, temporal accumulation, or even the gradual collapse of feeling or meaning. Hence, the importance of studying and analyzing this phenomenon, especially given the scarcity of focused academic treatment of it as an independent stylistic structure within poetic texts. From this perspective, this research seeks to study the phenomenon of cumulative verbs as a rhetorical mechanism based on grammatical and semantic functions.

It also aims to analyze their impact on the construction of poetic imagery and determine their rhythmic and semantic value within the poetic context, through analytical applications on selected examples of Arabic poetry.