154 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY
city, whereas ytbr in the second and irnm in the
third line sufficiently express by themselves the
ideas of the "great lady" (in antithesis to "the
widow.") and "the princess"; Myvgb, among the
nations, and tvnydmb, over provinces, respectively
serve merely to amplify the two ideas. The
distinction between Mf ytbr and Myvgb ytbr is
shown grammatically by the difference in con-
struction; and the writer probably allowed him-
self to repeat the same word 'inn in the two lines
instead of using two different and synonymous
terms on the same kind of principle as that of
the well-known law of Arabic poetry that the
same word may be repeated in the course of a
poem as the rhyme word, provided that the word
is used on the two occasions with some difference
of meaning.
Thus, perhaps, a close examination of Lamenta-
tions i. 1 confirms, rather than reveals an excep-
tion to, the law which I have suggested, and
incidentally shows that ryfh is not merely metric-
ally possible, which Budde had denied and which
is all that Sievers claimed, but metrically required.