style and movement. Hebrew poetry is different. Hebrew poetry works by parallelism: rhythmic features that relate the concept of the line to the previous line. What rhyme is to English poetry, parallelism is to Hebrew poetry. So, in Hebrew poetry the emphasis is not that words have a similar sound, but a similar meaning. The lines after the first line either explain, expand upon, or show a contrast to the previous line. So, the dominant force in Hebrew poetry is parallelism, not rhyme. Think of the first