poems. Pope refuses to divide the work into individual poems at all and simply comments on each verse in sequence. The average reader has no reason to prefer one analysis above another. In the discussion that follows, I will endeavor to establish three points, although not necessarily in the following order. First, although a collection of songs, the Song of Songs is a single piece with a unified structure based on an arrangement of thirteen poems. Second, there are analogies for this kind of opus
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