nature of the meter or measure so employed and how it produces closely similar if not identical results in a series of poems. For it is one thing to find some sort of rhythmic pattern in a poem, but a much more important matter to show that the results are duplicated or repeated in other pieces. In the process we will see that quantity in Hebrew poetry, where it has been observed, is quite unlike that in other languages and literature, since there are opposing processes at work: a centralizing or