Bishop Lowth, in his Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews, delivered at Oxford in the middle of the eighteenth century, no doubt performed great service in calling attention to the parallelisms of Hebrew poetry.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
There are passages employing parallelisms that are not poetry, while many poems exist in which these are not used.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
In his account of The Literary Study of the Bible, Professor Richard G. Moulton has given an excellent study of the parallelism of the Bible, but he admits that parallelisms of clause are also prose devices.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell