Major sections of this chapter will go into detail on the nature of parallelism and imagery. For now, let it be said that Hebrew prose can also contain parallelism and imagery, so it is the consistent and sustained use of these features that characterize Hebrew poetry and distinguish it from prose. You may have wondered why this definition contains no reference to either rhyme or meter. We tend to think of rhyme and meter as the essence of poetry, because since childhood we’ve been exposed to poems