102 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY
parallel to one another as the foregoing, or
indeed that are strictly parallel to one another
at all.
In about one-third of the entire number of
sections parallelism more or less clear and con-
spicuous between subsections ' occurs ; examples
are vv. 10 (a. b. c2 | a'. b') and 14 (a. b. c
b'. d).--
Myrtsmb hyrx | yl xvh brx bd
As a bear lying in wait is he unto me, | a lion in secret places.
Mvyh-lk Mtnygn | Mymf-lkl qHw ytyyH
I am become a derision to all peoples, | their song all the day.
Clearly, then, since subsectional parallelism
occurs in considerably less than half, and prob-
ably in not more than a third, of the sixty-six
sections of the poem, and sectional parallelism,
which might have occurred thirty-three times,
actually occurs scarcely a dozen times at most,
"merely rhythmical parallelism" is more con-
spicuous here than real parallelism of thought
and terms; whether subsectional is much or any
more relatively frequent than sectional parallel-
ism depends on the view taken as to the reality
of parallelism in the couplets specified on p. 101
and as to the character of the more doubtful
examples of subsectional parallelism given below.^1
1 The clearest examples of subsectional parallelism occur in the
following fifteen verses : 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 25, 33, 47, 58,
60, 61. The text of some even of these (e.g. 22, 23, 33) is open to
question: but probably parallelism existed in the original text. More
doubtful examples maybe found in vv. 5, 7, 11, 16, 19, 30, 39, 43, 53, 56, 65.