instead start at a higher level, the level of the poetic line.8 Then we will look at how poets batch lines together to form strophes and how they, at times, go on to batch strophes into stanzas. A line can be viewed as the basic unit of Hebrew poetry. A line is not to be confused with a sentence in English, because many lines contain more than one complete sentence. Psalm 117:1 is a case in point. Praise the LORD, all you nations. Extol him, all you peoples. Also a line is not to be confused