or the created just have "double ignorance".
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The author seems to stress about the rules of "Ghazal" (and there is a lot more to it than just couplets rhyming the same) but these are just general poetic rules the Arabic poets used to adopt, and not exclusive to romantic poetry aka "Ghazal".
They are a bit similar to strong types in programming, you can have one sentence, and by changing its marks/diacritics (specifically called short vowels), you change what gets to be subject or object.
This is why Arabic poetry (especially Pre-Isalmic) is very interesting in its expressivenss and structural complexity even in the shortest poems (reminds me of code-golfing).