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Other differences exist as between one or more
of these poems and chapter v.; and these will
appear when we turn, as we must now, to a closer
examination of the parallelism in chapters i.-iv.,
and of the differences in this respect to be dis-
cerned as between these chapters considered
severally.
Budde quotes with approval a remark of De
Wette's that in Lamentations " merely rhythmi-
cal parallelism," another term for Lowth's con-
structive or synthetic parallelism, is most promi-
nent, and that parallelism of thought, when it
occurs, occurs mostly as between the subsections,
i.e. between the clauses or sentences which con-
sist alternately of (as a rule) three and two terms,
not between the sections, which consist, as a rule,
of five terms; put otherwise, this amounts to
the assertion that parallelism in these poems is
chiefly of the general type
a. b. c
a'. b'
not of the type
a. b. c. d. e
a'. b'. c'. d'. e'
Budde's only criticism of this is that De Wette
considerably underrates the extent of this
parallelism between the subsections, which we
may briefly term subsectional parallelism. But
neither De Wette nor Budde carried the analysis